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Wrong license quoted in LICENSE file #100

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ppisar opened this issue May 18, 2023 · 3 comments
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Wrong license quoted in LICENSE file #100

ppisar opened this issue May 18, 2023 · 3 comments

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@ppisar
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ppisar commented May 18, 2023

A LICENSE file attempts to quote an Artistic License

Carmel/LICENSE

Line 273 in 478c98c

--- The Artistic License 1.0 ---
. But the quote text differs from Perl Artistic license https://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html. E.g. a number of items differs (9 versus 10). I think you mistaken https://spdx.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0.html with https://spdx.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0-Perl.html.

That's confusing because same LICENSE file at the top refers to Perl 5 licenses

the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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@miyagawa
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miyagawa commented May 18, 2023

The LICENSE file is auto generated by Dist::Zilla::Plugin::LicenseFromModule, and the actual text boils down to https://metacpan.org/pod/Software::License::Perl_5 and it should be changed there rather than changing it in this module.

For me "same as Perl" refers to GPL 2 + Artistic 1, though I see what you mean by the differences between Artistic 1 vs Artistic 1 (Perl).

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ppisar commented May 19, 2023

The LICENSE file is auto generated by Dist::Zilla::Plugin::LicenseFromModule, and the actual text boils down to https://metacpan.org/pod/Software::License::Perl_5 and it should be changed there rather than changing it in this module.

I see. It's already tracked at Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Software-License#32.

For me "same as Perl" refers to GPL 2 + Artistic 1, though I see what you mean by the differences between Artistic 1 vs Artistic 1 (Perl).

To be precise, with "Artistic 1" do you mean the 8-item https://spdx.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0.html license and with "GPL 2" do you mean GPL 2.0 version only without any future versions?

Could you please record your intention somewhere into the distribution, so that future users can understand what license terms actually apply?

@miyagawa
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To be precise, with "Artistic 1" do you mean the 8-item

I do not care which one you refer to. You can pick whichever is more permissive.

Could you please record your intention somewhere into the distribution

My intention is that it's the same license as Perl 5, whatever that means.

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