Bug#458385: New version of Artistic License

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>]

Russ Allbery dijo [Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:23:17PM -0800]:
> > Perl 6 is already distributed under version 2.0, currently included in
> > the Parrot package. As are over a hundred Perl 6 modules, currently
> > included in the Pugs package. We haven't split them out into separate
> > Debian packages yet, but will in the next 6 months or so.
> 
> That's additional information that I didn't have.  Are all hundred of
> those modules covered under the Artistic 2.0 license?
> 
> 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.

The Perl 6 modules currently in the archive are, confusingly as it
seems, for Perl 5. That means, excluding Pugs (which is a Perl 6
ongoing implementation):

libperl6-export-perl - Implements the Perl 6 'is export(...)' trait
libperl6-form-perl - perl - Perl6::Form - Implements the Perl 6 'form' built-in
libperl6-junction-perl - Perl6 style Junction operators in Perl5.
libperl6-say-perl - print -- but no newline needed
libperl6-slurp-perl - Implements the Perl 6 'slurp' built-in

So, (for the simplest example), if in your Perl5 code you say:

use Perl6::Say;
say 'onara';

it will work as it would in Perl6, and put a newline after the
string. 

But anyway, as for the licensing: This module's licensing reads:

   COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2004, Damian Conway. All Rights Reserved.  This
       module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or
       modified under the same terms as Perl itself.

So, once again: What is Perl itself? Here, I'd think it means "Perl
5", as it's the only Perl able to use this. But again, if Perl is to
change its licensing... This copyright string becomes ambiguous.

Anyway... Allison, I do agree with Russ on this thread: We still are
not -as said in Spanish- close to the river. We shall see how to cross
the bridge once we get there - The license is not yet a common
license, but it presumably will become soon.

I'm more worried about the tons of changes this will inflict on the
pkg-perl group ;-) But well, that's just me.

Greetings,

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