Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License
Allison Randal <allison@perl.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I was under the impression that the Perl 6 modules in the archive were
>> being packaged independently like the Perl 5 modules, since I think
>> I've seen several of them already. I didn't realize that you had a
>> monolithic package that you were going to break up.
> What you've likely seen is the Perl 5 modules that emulate parts of Perl 6
> syntax. Those are all named "Perl6::something".
Aha!
Okay, in that case, I think I've changed my mind and we should go ahead
and include Artistic 2.0 in the common-licenses directory, although I'd
welcome comments from other debian-policy readers.
> Indeed, we got legal counsel on the question before we even started to
> revise the license. The legal steps are squared away. There is still a
> community process for the update, because that's the way Perl
> development works.
Okay, I won't worry about it then. It's good news for the whole
community, to be sure, since the new license is much better!
Thanks for your patience with correcting my misunderstandings.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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