Re: [opensuse-packaging] Re: simple/newbie perl module license question

26 Mar 2011


      On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Juergen Weigert  wrote:
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On Mar 25, 11 15:05:49 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Greg Freemyer  wrote:
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All,
I'm trying to package a CPAN package whose license statement at cpan is:
===
Copyright (C) 2004 Squirrel Consultancy
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6.0 or,
at your option, any other version of Perl 5 you may have available.
===
What do I put in the specfile as a license?
License: GPL+ or Artistic
-> We used to call this license just 'perl' in the past, but it is better
  to spell out what the users options actually are.
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And along similar lines, another package says:
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright Š 2004 Jamie Zawinski 
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LICENSE
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software
and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation. No representations are made about the
suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is"
without express or implied warranty.
===
License: PERMISSIVE-OSI-COMPLIANT
-> We used to call this group of licenses 'any permissive' or similar in the past.
  There are too many of these simple license, to give them all names.
  Hence the idea of grouping them. OSI compliance was probably not a
  concern, when Jamie phrased the above, but I find nothing that would break it.
Ciaran will fire off a submitrequests with a small patch, if I got it somehow
wrong now. We are currently investigating if we should adopt SPDX
style licnese names, alas, they are also in flux, currently.
http://www.spdx.org/wiki/working-version-license-list
       cheers,
               JW-
Thanks,

I updated the specfiles for the 2 packages in question and did a SR to D:L:perl

Greg
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