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Id: 89062
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Mail-POP3Client

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Owner: pop3client-USEMYCPANADDRESSFORHELP [...] dowds.net
Requestors: MICHIELB [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Unimportant
Broken in: (no value)
Fixed in: 2.19



Subject: No license specified
This module does not specify the license it has, not in the Makefile.PL metadata (see http://perlmaven.com/how-to-add-the-license-field-to-meta-files-on-cpan ) but also nowhere in the POD, source code or README. This is bad because if you don't specify a license this means other people should assume it is not 'open source' as in the OSI definition (i.e., they would not be allowed to make & distribute modifications) and people might not be able to use the module. Of course, this can also be on purpose. But even then it'd be great if the module has some explicit statement on the license in POD and Makefile.PL for Makefile.PL: "Same terms as perl" (most common choice for CPAN modules!) 'LICENSE' => 'perl', Restrictive 'LICENSE' => 'restrictive', or even 'LICENSE' => 'None', -- Mike