[PATCH] Restrictive licensing term on pod/perlembed.pod, pod/perlmodinstall.pod #11539
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From @jmdhCreated by @jmdhThis is a bug report for perl from dom@earth.li, -----------------------------------------------------------------
The Debian FTP master's take on this was (as recorded at
Would it be possible to amend that clause? Copyright holders are listed Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Doug MacEachern and Jon Orwant. All Thanks, Perl Info |
From @cpansproutForwarding to the two copyright holders... On Sun Jul 31 08:33:42 2011, dom wrote:
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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]Forwarding to the two copyright holders... On Sun Jul 31 08:33:42 2011, dom wrote:
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@cpansprout - Status changed from 'new' to 'open' |
From @obraI've pinged Jon and Doug offlist. I'll report back. |
From @obraDoug and Jon are ok with us fixing things. From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@…..com> Any license changes to perlembed.pod are fine with me. Or just revert to the original version of the document: "Look at perlmain.c, and do something like that." ;) Best, ----- Original Message -----
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From @jmdhOn Mon Aug 01 09:16:54 2011, jesse wrote:
Okay, patch attached, replacing the previous conditions with: This document may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. Cheers, |
From @jmdh0001-perl-96000-Apply-standard-copyright-license-statemen.patchFrom 181843fc98ab799dfb4bad6de3d4f470011db7bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:44:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [perl #96000] Apply standard copyright license statement
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The original authors have agreed to alter the licensing of these
files, in order to remove a potentially problematic invariant
title clause:
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@…..com>
To: Jon Orwant <orwant@….com>
Cc: Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com>
Subject: Re: [fwd] [perl #96000] Restrictive licensing term on pod/perlembed.pod, pod/perlmodinstall.pod
Message-ID: <1dc71b53-12e2-45d3-af62-f6d169147921@ox.local>
In-Reply-To: <CAJs5hDaW+k6mf_NBj-6hPyr4rGvkEjhVtXyJ8ziLXyXimcvgHA@mail.gmail.com>
Any license changes to perlembed.pod are fine with me.
Or just revert to the original version of the document: "Look at perlmain.c, and do something like that." ;)
Best,
-Doug
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Orwant" <orwant@….com>
> To: "Jesse Vincent" <jesse@fsck.com>
> Cc: dougm@….com
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 7:38:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [fwd] [perl #96000] Restrictive licensing term on pod/perlembed.pod, pod/perlmodinstall.pod
>
> Sure, happy to relicense.
>
>
> Jon
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Jesse Vincent < jesse@fsck.com >
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Doug & Jon,
>
> I know it's been forever since you last touched the perl core-
>
> It looks like the Debian folks would like us to relax the licensing
> terms on docs that bear your copyrights.
>
> Would you be willing to relicense the contributions you made to the
> two
> documents listed below under the same terms as the rest of Perl?
>
> Thanks!
> Jesse
> --
---
pod/perlembed.pod | 16 +---------------
pod/perlmodinstall.pod | 17 +----------------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perlembed.pod b/pod/perlembed.pod
index 1b2e0c1..e40035e 100644
--- a/pod/perlembed.pod
+++ b/pod/perlembed.pod
@@ -1114,18 +1114,4 @@ Server Perl plugins.
Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Doug MacEachern and Jon Orwant. All
Rights Reserved.
-Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
-documentation provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
-preserved on all copies.
-
-Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
-documentation under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also
-that they are marked clearly as modified versions, that the authors'
-names and title are unchanged (though subtitles and additional
-authors' names may be added), and that the entire resulting derived
-work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical
-to this one.
-
-Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
-documentation into another language, under the above conditions for
-modified versions.
+This document may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.
diff --git a/pod/perlmodinstall.pod b/pod/perlmodinstall.pod
index a7b74be..f4694cc 100644
--- a/pod/perlmodinstall.pod
+++ b/pod/perlmodinstall.pod
@@ -436,19 +436,4 @@ First version July 22, 1998; last revised November 21, 2001.
Copyright (C) 1998, 2002, 2003 Jon Orwant. All Rights Reserved.
-Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
-documentation provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
-preserved on all copies.
-
-Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
-documentation under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also
-that they are marked clearly as modified versions, that the authors'
-names and title are unchanged (though subtitles and additional
-authors' names may be added), and that the entire resulting derived
-work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical
-to this one.
-
-Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
-documentation into another language, under the above conditions for
-modified versions.
-
+This document may be distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.
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1.7.5.4
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From @cpansproutOn Sat Aug 20 07:50:56 2011, dom wrote:
Thank you. Applied as 608704e. |
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@cpansprout - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved' |
Migrated from rt.perl.org#96000 (status was 'resolved')
Searchable as RT96000$
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