Re: Copyright License Proposal

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk> wrote:

Does this take into account the fact that this is intended as an Author
or release test?

Yes. That's what I'm saying. Authors (like me) can choose to use it. They can respond to it by improving their copyright info or reporting bugs back to you.

Also I don't think this is yet ready for anything that smacks of
mandatory compliance.

Understood. Release early. Release often.

On 12/06/11 14:18, Ingy dot Net wrote:
> Nicholas,
>
> If you will release this under a non-developer version number like 0.01,
> I will and Module::Install and Module::Package support for it and thus
> start using it on all me releases. Effectively this would prevent an
> author from releasing a module without the copyright tests passing.
>
> Cheers, Ingy
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk

> <mailto:nicholas@periapt.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> I have put together a proof of concept Test::Copyright module:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~silasmonk/Test-Copyright-0.0_1/lib/Test/Copyright.pm

> <http://search.cpan.org/%7Esilasmonk/Test-Copyright-0.0_1/lib/Test/Copyright.pm>

>
> It is fairly fragile and incomplete and I make no promises for it.
> However please consider the idea and whether it can be used to improve
> the quality of license and copyright information in CPAN. Also should
> there be a standard format for copyright information so that it can be
> more easily parsed.
>
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