| Subject: | Missing Copyright Information |
Hi:
While packaging your module for Debian, I noticed that it doesn't seem
to mention copyright information (it does have authorship information,
but it would be preferable to also have information about copyright
holders, years of copyright and so forth).
Copyright/license information is needed in order for us (and others) to
be able to legally distribute the software. Could you please give us
(replying to this bug report is fine): years of copyright, copyright
holders' names, copyright holders' e-mail addresses (if appropriate).
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 gives others the rights
to use and re-distribute 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