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Id: 54546
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: autobox-Core
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: JAWNSY [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.6
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Fri Feb 12 08:35:32 2010 JAWNSY [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Missing Copyright Information
Hi: While packaging your module for Debian, I noticed that it doesn't seem to mention appropriate copyright or license information. The main README file has the boilerplate: COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Put the correct copyright and licence information here. Copyright (C) 2004 A. U. Thor blah blah blah In Debian we need copyright/license information for all of the packages we upload. Could you give us (replying to this bug report is fine): years of copyright, copyright holders' names, copyright holders' e-mail addresses. Unfortunately without this information we cannot upload it. This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that both copyright and licensing information is vital for the continued success of open source software. Copyright is what allows you to assert a license, and a license is what ensures open source remains open source, and that users can make use of your software. A great article discussing some of this is "What is Copyleft?" by Richard Stallman: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for the noise, as I understand that the last thing most authors want to deal with is legal administrivia like this. I do hope, however, that you could (in your continued generosity) help us with this request. Please also consider adding these statements to your code/package README, since we must distribute some evidence of copyright information if it is not in the source package itself. Cheers, Jonathan On behalf of the Debian Perl Team
  Fri Feb 12 08:36:29 2010 JAWNSY [...] cpan.org - Broken in 0.6 added
  Fri Feb 12 08:36:29 2010 JAWNSY [...] cpan.org - Broken in 0.9 deleted
  Thu Mar 18 13:58:26 2010 SWALTERS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Fri Feb 12 08:35:32 2010, JAWNSY wrote: Show quoted text
> Hi: > > While packaging your module for Debian, I noticed that it doesn't seem > to mention appropriate copyright or license information. The main README > file has the boilerplate: > > COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE > > Put the correct copyright and licence information here. > > Copyright (C) 2004 A. U. Thor blah blah blah > > In Debian we need copyright/license information for all of the packages > we upload. Could you give us (replying to this bug report is fine): > years of copyright, copyright holders' names, copyright holders' e-mail > addresses. Unfortunately without this information we cannot upload it. > > This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my > understanding that both copyright and licensing information is vital for > the continued success of open source software. Copyright is what allows > you to assert a license, and a license is what ensures open source > remains open source, and that users can make use of your software. A > great article discussing some of this is "What is Copyleft?" by Richard > Stallman: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ > > Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for > the noise, as I understand that the last thing most authors want to deal > with is legal administrivia like this. I do hope, however, that you > could (in your continued generosity) help us with this request. Please > also consider adding these statements to your code/package README, since > we must distribute some evidence of copyright information if it is not > in the source package itself. > > Cheers, > > Jonathan > On behalf of the Debian Perl Team
Thanks for reporting this to me directly by email. The default for these auto-created RT queues is *not* to send emails and I wasn't aware they started adding these things automatically, so it made a fantastic little bitbucket. On trying to upload a new version of autobox::Core, I hit a bug in PAUSE in fetching files over HTTP rather than doing file uploads because my Firefox decided to stop drawing the file upload dialogue box. So, in other words, sorry for the extremely slow fix but the entire universe was broken.
  Thu Mar 18 13:58:27 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Mar 18 13:59:05 2010 SWALTERS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
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  Thu Mar 18 13:59:09 2010 SWALTERS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'