On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:45:52AM +0900, Daisuke Murase (typester) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for writing and maintaining the Array::Diff module! > > > > I'm trying to create a Debian Linux package for Array::Diff, and > > unfortunately I've hit a couple of problems. In the current version > > of the Array-Diff-0.05 distribution, there is no clear copyright > > statement listing authors and copyright years :) Of course, there > > is your name and address in the "AUTHOR" POD section, but legally, > > this is not enough; and then there is the "COPYRIGHT" POD section, > > but it only contains *license* information, no copyright statement > > at all :) > > > > Would it be possible for you to, say, rename this section to > > "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE", as seems to be customary for Perl modules, > > and add a "Copyright (C)" line listing the authors (that would be you) > > and the years in which the module has been changed? It would be best > > to also add a copyright line to the distribution's README file so that > > it is clear that all files in the distribution are covered by it. > > [snip my perldoc improvement suggestions] > > Hi Peter, > > I applied a your patch and uploaded as new version to CPAN right now. > It's available soon at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Array-Diff-0.05001/ > > Thank you for your patch! Thanks a lot for including the perldoc changes! :) I've already integrated your 0.05001 release in the Debian Perl Group's Subversion repository. However, the main problem still remains - did you take a look at my explanations about the license and copyright? :) See the part of my original message that I quoted above - the Array-Diff distribution has no clear copyright statement, and this makes it not-quite-suitable for inclusion in most OS distributions out there :/ As explained above, it would be enough if you added a sentence either to the "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE" section of Diff.pm, or to the README file itself - just one sentence containing the word "Copyright", your name, and one or more years would be enough :) Once again, thanks for taking the time to address our concerns! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@space.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on
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