On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Yuval Kfir via RT wrote:
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> Mon Nov 24 09:09:39 2008: Request 41181 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by Eitheladar
> Queue: Win32-NetAdmin
> Subject: Perl license not explicit
> Broken in: 0.09, 0.10, 0.11
> Severity: Normal
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: yuval.kfir@hp.com
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41181 >
>
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> There is no statement such as "This program is free software; you can
> redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself" or
> similar in the package sources & documentation. Can this licensing issue
> be made explicit, please?
The license is declared in the META.yml file to be the same as Perl itself:
license: perl
That is the authoritative place for CPAN distributions to declare the license,
which is picked up by other systems, e.g. search.cpan.org:
http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-NetAdmin-0.11/
I agree that the licensing information should be included in the documentation
as well though, as the META.yml file isn't being installed with the actual
code. I'll do that whenever there is another release for the module. Thanks
for bringing it to my attention!
Cheers,
-Jan
