* Florian Schlichting <fschlich@ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE> [2012-11-05 23:09:48 +0100]: > Hi, > > While packaging your module Math::Libm for Debian, I noticed that it > doesn't seem to mention any licensing information, not even "same as > Perl" or anything like that. License information is needed in order for > us (and others) to be able to legally distribute the software. Could you > please give us (replying to this email is fine) the license that > Math::Libm is distributed under? > > This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my > understanding that both copyright and licensing information is vital for > the continued success of open source software. Copyright is what allows > you to assert a license, and a license is what gives others the rights > to use and re-distribute your software. A great article discussing some > of this is "What is Copyleft?" by Richard Stallman: > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ > > Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for > the noise, as I understand that the last thing most authors want to deal > with is legal administrivia like this. I do hope, however, that you > could (in your continued generosity) help us with this request. Please > also consider adding these statements to your code/package README, since > we must distribute some evidence of copyright information if it is not > in the source package itself. Hello Florian, While investigating the status of Slic3r's dependencies (thanks a lot for your work so far, BTW), I noticed the Math::Libm issue. Thankfully, Fedora has had the same issue, and has gotten clarification from Daniel Lewart before going ahead with the packaging: https://raw.github.com/hroncok/RPMAdditionalSources/master/Math-Libm-license.txt I'm not sure how to proceed to integrate that info in the Debian package though. I don't see a new release coming up with a LICENSE file, ever (it was uploaded to CPAN only once, in 2000). What do you think? Cheers, -- Nicolas Dandrimont
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