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Re: Copyright format “License” field: grant of license, license text?



Quoting Thibaut Paumard (2015-05-21 09:50:48)
>> How about this::
>> 
>>     Files: *
>>     Copyright: 2012-2014, Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>
>>     License: Artistic or GPL-1+
>>     License-Grant:
>>         This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under 
>>         the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
>>     Comment:
>>         Perl 5 is licensed under either the 'Artistic license' or the 'GNU
>>         General Public License' version 1 or later.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Related to this is the BSD notice style, which I personally don't feel
> comfortable altering in any way. To me, it looks like the copyright
> line, the "Allrights reserved" line and the license must be reproduced
> verbatim as a single block. Do you think it could be split into the
> various existing and proposed fields?
> 
> 
> Copyright (c) <years>, <copyright holders>
> All rights reserved.
> 
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
> met:
> 
> 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> 
> 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

I guess it is 2. in above that you feel dictates keeping copyright and 
licensing together.  I believe it only dictates reproducing copyright 
and licensing verbatim, which is satisfied even if separately.

I consider the string "All rights reserved." irrelevant to reproduce.  
If you disagree then I believe the correct place is in License field.


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