Fwd: [rt.cpan.org #53310] Missing Copyright Information
It looks like our issues have been resolved. Does someone more active
in the group want to take over whatever package this relates to?
Cheers,
Jonathan
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From: Nick Bebout via RT <bug-NTLM@rt.cpan.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:58 PM
Subject: [rt.cpan.org #53310] Missing Copyright Information
To: JAWNSY@cpan.org
<URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=53310 >
Copyright 2001 - Mark Bush - <Mark.Bush@bushnet.demon.co.uk>
Copyright 2007 - David (Buzz) Bussenschutt - <davidbuzz@gmail.com>
Copyright 2008 - Dmitry Karasik - <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>
Copyright 2008 - Andrew Hobson - <ahobson@infloop.com>
Copyright 2011 - Nick Bebout - <nbebout@cpan.org>
Will that suffice?
Nick
On Sat Jan 02 23:33:01 2010, JAWNSY wrote:
> Hi:
>
> While packaging your module for Debian, I noticed that it doesn't seem
> to mention copyright information or license terms. Without
> copyright information and licensing terms, we cannot package this
> module for Debian, even though it's something that our users want
> [1].
>
> In Debian we need copyright/license information for all of the
> packages we upload. Could you give us (replying to this bug report
> is fine): years of copyright, copyright holders' names, copyright
> holders' e-mail addresses. Unfortunately without this information
> we cannot upload it.
>
> This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my
> understanding that both copyright and licensing information is
> vital for the continued success of open source software. Copyright
> is what allows you to assert a license, and a license is what
> ensures open source remains open source, and that users can make
> use of your software. A great article discussing some of this is
> "What is Copyleft?" by Richard Stallman:
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
>
> Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for
> the noise, as I understand that the last thing most authors want to
> deal with is legal administrivia like this. I do hope, however,
> that you could (in your continued generosity) help us with this
> request. Please also consider adding these statements to your
> code/package README, since we must distribute some evidence of
> copyright information if it is not in the source package itself.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jonathan
> On behalf of the Debian Perl Team
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507669
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