Re: mime-tools problems
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:41:27PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:19:44 -0200, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> > Also, I found that the package has some serious licensing problems,
> > that I'm sure won't let it pass NEW today:
> > in /lib/MIME/Decoder/UU.pm:
> >
> > "UU-decoding code lifted from "uuexplode", a Perl script by an unknown
> > author..."
The meat of the decoding is pretty much the same code that's in
the Camel book:
http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/prog/ch03_182.htm
and it's been that way since at least 1991, see
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl/msg/ce6ee526836828d8
which might actually be the origin of this 'uuexplode'.
I don't think we should worry about this; upstream clearly doesn't since
they claim copyright in the next paragraph...
> > These files have no copyright nor license:
> > ./t/Globby.pm
> > ./lib/MIME/Field/ParamVal.pm
> > ./lib/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm
> >
> > These files have author but not license:
> > ./lib/MIME/Field/ContType.pm
> > ./lib/MIME/Field/ConTraEnc.pm
> > ./lib/MIME/Field/ContDisp.pm
> > ./lib/MIME/WordDecoder.pm
>
> They seem to be by the same author so I guess assuming they have the
> same license as the whole module might be safe.
I think the "module-wide" license and author information given in README
can be assumed to apply to all files in the distribution unless they
contain contradictory statements. This seems standard practice to me.
Cheers,
--
Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
Reply to: