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Id: 35195
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Requestors: ilmari+cpan [...] ilmari.org
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  Fri Apr 18 14:35:34 2008 ilmari+cpan [...] ilmari.org - Ticket created
Subject: Incorrect GPL license detection
Thelicense detection code looks for "GNU public license" and "GNU lesser public license", which are not the names of the GNU licenses. They are called "GNU General Public License" and "GNU Lesser General Public License", respectively. Please add the proper names to the code.
  Sun Jun 08 08:54:39 2008 ilmari+cpan [...] ilmari.org - Correspondence added
From: ilmari+cpan [...] ilmari.org
Here is a patch that adds the proper license names, as well as "GNU Library (General) Public License, the old name for the LGPL.
--- lib/Module/Install/Metadata.pm~ 2008-06-02 11:38:24.000000000 +0100 +++ lib/Module/Install/Metadata.pm 2008-06-08 13:51:30.000000000 +0100 @@ -361,8 +361,12 @@ my $license_text = $1; my @phrases = ( 'under the same (?:terms|license) as perl itself' => 'perl', 1, + 'GNU general public license' => 'gpl', 1, 'GNU public license' => 'gpl', 1, + 'GNU lesser general public license' => 'lgpl', 1, 'GNU lesser public license' => 'lgpl', 1, + 'GNU library general public license' => 'lgpl', 1, + 'GNU library public license' => 'lgpl', 1, 'BSD license' => 'bsd', 1, 'Artistic license' => 'artistic', 1, 'GPL' => 'gpl', 1,
  Thu Jul 17 12:41:03 2008 adamk [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Path applied, will appear in 0.77. Thank you.
  Thu Jul 17 12:41:10 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Jul 17 12:41:14 2008 adamk [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'