Package: base-files
Version: 4.0.2
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
CPAN ships an enormous number of perl modules, many of which
have a license similar to the following:
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
It would be helpful, then, to just point to a common-licenses file.
As it stands now, each package is obliged to copy the Perl license:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of either:
a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later
version, or
b) the "Artistic License" which comes with Perl.
[/usr/share/doc/perl/copyright]
into its own copyright. Many choose instead to paraphrase, sometimes
omitting information. For example, libcgi-session-perl omits mention
of the GPL option:
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Larry Wall's "Artistic License" for perl can be found in
/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic.
[/usr/share/doc/libcgi-session-perl/copyright]
A common-licenses file will alleviate these kind of copying
errors.
Thanks
-Steve
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