[snowhare@nihongo.org - Wed Dec 22 22:12:03 2004]:
Show quoted text> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, via RT wrote:
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> > is available. I would be grateful for clarifications as I would like
> to
> > package this for Debian.
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> It is licensed under the same terms as Perl: dual Artistic/GPL.
> It is mentioned in the README file of the distribution.
>
> See
http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for specific details on the terms.
I would like to report another licensing issue. I am one of the
packagers for the OpenBSD project. One of the Lingua::Stem dependencies
cannot be considered free software. The module in question is
Text::German. If you examine the code you will see that all of the
modules are marked with the following copyright notice
# (C) Copyright 1996, Universität Dortmund, all rights reserved.
Nowhere in the rest of the distribution is there any mention of any
Licensing terms for the module. This means that CPAN shouldn't even be
ditributing the source code to this module. Additionally, because the
copyright is attributed to the university, I don't believe that the
Author of the module even has the right to rerelease the module with
additional Licensing terms without the permission of the university.
As such I cannot package or redistribute Text::German in the OpenBSD
package collection, and as a result of that I cannot enable builds of
Lingua::Stem either, due to our policies on Licensing issues.
A few large modules ( Plucene, OpenInteract, possibly more ) depend on
Lingua::Stem as well and this Licensing issue is barring me from
redistibuting them as well.
RT for rt.cpan.org