[opensuse-packaging] simple/newbie perl module license question
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? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
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?
And along similar lines, another package says: ===
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2004 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
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. === How do I show that? Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
On Mar 25, 11 15:05:49 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
And along similar lines, another package says:
===
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2004 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
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- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 __/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) SuSE. Supporting Linux since 1992. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Juergen Weigert <jw@suse.de> wrote:
On Mar 25, 11 15:05:49 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
And along similar lines, another package says:
===
COPYRIGHT
Copyright Š 2004 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org
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