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Re: Copyright License Proposal



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

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