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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 21:22:10 -0600 |
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Subject: Re: Pod::Html license |
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From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist53147@gmail.com> |
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To: Petr Šabata <contyk@redhat.com> |
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Cc: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>, marcgreen@cpan.org, |
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jplesnik@redhat.com |
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Yes, it was supposed to be licensed just like the rest of Perl. |
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Sent from my Sprint phone |
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Petr Šabata <contyk@redhat.com> wrote: |
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>Marc, Tom, |
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>I'm reviewing licensing of our perl package in Fedora and |
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>noticed Pod::HTML and its pod2html script are licensed under |
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>the Artistic license (only). |
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>This is an issue for us as this license isn't considered free by |
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>FSF [0]. Unless the license of this core component changes, we |
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>will have to drop it from the tarball and remove support for it |
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>from all the modules we ship that use it, such as Module::Build |
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>or Module::Install. |
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>What I've seen in the past is authors originally claiming their |
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>module was released under Artistic while what they actually meant |
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>was the common `the same as perl itself', i.e. `GPL+/Aristic' [1], |
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>an FSF free license. Is it possible this is also the case |
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>of Pod::Html? |
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>Thanks, |
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>Petr |
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>(also CC'ing Jitka, the primary package maintainer in Fedora) |
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>[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ArtisticLicense |
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>[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PerlLicense
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