Bug#472384: ITP: libsort-fields-perl -- Sort lines containing delimited fields

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>

* Package name    : libsort-fields-perl
  Version         : 0.90
  Upstream Author : Joseph Hall <jnh@cpan.org>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sort-Fields/
* License         : Public Domain[1]
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : Sort lines containing delimited fields

Sort::Fields provides a general purpose technique for efficiently
sorting lists of lines that contain data separated into fields.

[1] Statement of release to public domain attached.

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• To: "Dominic Hargreaves" <dom@earth.li>
• Cc: jnh@cpan.org
• Subject: Re: Sort::Fields licence
• From: Joseph <remid0d0s0@gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:37:21 -0700
• Message-id: <144b6a750803231337p346b372ep6c7fbd0bd2959c09@mail.gmail.com>
• In-reply-to: <20080323184608.GV6059@urchin.earth.li>
• References: <20080323184608.GV6059@urchin.earth.li>

I'm not interested in uploading a new version with a proper copyright
statement right now. Therefore considering the age of the code and so
on:

I hereby declare Sort::Fields to be in the public domain.

Hope that helps.  Feel free to publish this statement where necessary.

  -joseph

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I'm interested in packaging Sort::Fields for Debian, but since there is
>  no copyright statement or licence attached to the code, I'm unable to do
>  this at present. Could you possibly add one which is DFSG-compliant[1]
>  (of course the "Perl licence" is generally used for CPAN modules)

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