On 11-06-06 at 12:01pm, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Le Monday 6 June 2011 10:13:25, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > > > - Multiple licenses in a single distribution is not a reality > > > in CPAN world. At least not a reality worth making a big deal > > > about in this context. > > > > Do you mean to claim that they do not exist or that it is too > > uncommon to bother for your work? > > > > RDF::ACL is a concrete example: > > > > META.yml contains this: > > > > license: perl > > > > I added this (and more) to debian/copyright: > > > > Files: * > > Copyright: 2010-2011, Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org> > > License: Artistic or GPL-1+ > [snip] > > I think there's a confusion in your discussion between copyright and > licences. > > Jonas, in the example you gave, the licence of all files are indeed > perl like (i.e. Artistic or GPL-1+). But you gave much more details > about the copyright owner. > > Ingy, IFAIK, there's not much details in meta.yml about copyrights. > Only licenses are specified. If I'm right, could this be fixed in CPAN > world ? Good point! I believe, however, that licensing is worthless if done by anyone but the copyright holder. So (at least for Debian) copyright holders must be tracked as well, not only licenses. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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