| Subject: | Test data missing license information |
Hi Jerrad,
While packaging your module XML::RSSLite for Debian, I noticed that the
files t/journal.rss and t/sampleRSS.xml have copyright information but
not *license information*.
Copyright/license information is needed in order for us (and others) to
be able to legally distribute the software. Please could you change
these files to other files where we can establish clear and unambiguous
years of copyright, copyright holders' names, copyright holders' e-mail
addresses (if appropriate) AND licensing information.
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.
Cheers,
Nicholas Bamber On behalf of the Debian Perl Team