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Re: Copyright License Proposal



-=| Ingy dot Net, Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 01:14:52AM +1000 |=-
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> wrote:
> > I suspect you did not write the code below the inc/ subdir, right?
> 
> Funny you should ask. Much of it, yes. I am the original creator of
> Module::Install. But that doesn't matter in principle. It might only matter
> in that I can help change the policy such that using Module::Install does
> not impose any copyright complications on its users. How do I make that so
> for Debian?

Yes, please.

If I had only one wish to make about M:I, it would be that it doesn't 
strip all the POD when embedding itself in inc/. Stripping usage 
instructions and such is perfectly fine. What we miss in the 
inc/arnated M:I is the original statements of authorship/copyright and 
license. This change alone would be of great help by reducing 
guesswork.

If I had a second wish, it would be that M:I does not embed at all in 
inc, allowing CPAN distributions to use the system-wide copy. With the 
appearance of stable API, I see there is work already that may lead to 
that direction. Thanks!

And more thanks for carying about downstream packagers!

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