Bug#436105: suggestion to add GPL-1 as a common licence
- To: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
- Cc: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>, 436105@bugs.debian.org, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, debian-perl@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#436105: suggestion to add GPL-1 as a common licence
- From: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:40:45 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20100611124045.GB4590@belanna.comodo.priv.at>
- Mail-followup-to: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>, "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>, 436105@bugs.debian.org, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, debian-perl@lists.debian.org
- Reply-to: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>, 436105@bugs.debian.org
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:25:57 +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> If the code is v1-or-later then a trivial fork (by the original
> developer) is able to relicense it as v2-or-later or v3-or-later. If
> the original developer is unhappy with doing that, then they do have
> uncommon licensing desires.
Most perl modules are licensed "under the same terms as Perl itself",
and perl is licensed under "GPL-1 or later" or Artistic.
Cheers,
gregor
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