Bug #81277 for Error: clarification of the license

Mon Nov 19 06:43:56 2012 mmaslano [...] redhat.com - Ticket created

Subject:

clarification of the license

Hi, during packaging review of this module I found MIT license in the file lib/Error/Simple.pm. Is it typo or should I change the license of module to "same as Perl" and MIT? Thank you, Marcela

Mon Nov 19 07:14:26 2012 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Hi Marcela, thanks for the report. On Mon Nov 19 06:43:56 2012, mmaslano@redhat.com wrote: Show quoted text

> Hi, > during packaging review of this module I found MIT license in the file > lib/Error/Simple.pm. Is it typo or should I change the license of module > to "same as Perl" and MIT? >

this is not a typo. lib/Error/Simple.pm was written from scratch by some of the module's new maintainers, and was placed under the MIT/X11 licence in order to avoid the problematic licensing of dual GPLv1+ and Artistic (see http://perlbuzz.com/2010/06/artistic-license-20-makes-dual-license-boilerplate-unnecessary.html ), and people may use it under these terms. The rest of the distribution's contents however (and the distribution as a whole) is still under GPLv1-and-above or Artistic 1.0. This was clarified in Error-0.17019 which was just uploaded to the CPAN. So it's safe to put the entire perl-Error distribution under GPLv1+-and-artistic. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish

Mon Nov 19 07:14:27 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Nov 19 07:45:10 2012 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Resolving as fixed. Please reply to reopen. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish

Mon Nov 19 07:45:11 2012 SHLOMIF [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'