Hi, I have just had a package rejected by ftpmaster because the copyright file contained |This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or |modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See |/usr/share/common-licenses and /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright.
ftpmaster basically says that this cannot get into Debian until Upstream has clarified the license which is at the moment unacceptable for Debian. This must be a new thing since 10 % of the lib*-perl Packages on my reference system have that reference to "the same terms as Perl itself", and since this mistake is so common, I am pretty sure that some of you have a boilerplate message for the Upstream authors in hand to ask them for clarification of their license. May I ask people to share these messages so that I can use them to ask Upstream? If I word them myself, I probably couldn't avoid some asr-style kind of biting sarcasm which probably wouldn't make Debian look very good. Greetings Marc, slowly tired of jumping though hoops to get packages accepted -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
