diff --git a/Pod-Html-license-clarification b/Pod-Html-license-clarification new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd567f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Pod-Html-license-clarification @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 21:22:10 -0600 +Subject: Re: Pod::Html license +From: Tom Christiansen +To: Petr Šabata +Cc: Tom Christiansen , marcgreen@cpan.org, + jplesnik@redhat.com +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 + +Yes, it was supposed to be licensed just like the rest of Perl. + +Sent from my Sprint phone + +Petr Šabata wrote: + +>Marc, Tom, +> +>I'm reviewing licensing of our perl package in Fedora and +>noticed Pod::HTML and its pod2html script are licensed under +>the Artistic license (only). +> +>This is an issue for us as this license isn't considered free by +>FSF [0]. Unless the license of this core component changes, we +>will have to drop it from the tarball and remove support for it +>from all the modules we ship that use it, such as Module::Build +>or Module::Install. +> +>What I've seen in the past is authors originally claiming their +>module was released under Artistic while what they actually meant +>was the common `the same as perl itself', i.e. `GPL+/Aristic' [1], +>an FSF free license. Is it possible this is also the case +>of Pod::Html? +> +>Thanks, +>Petr +> +>(also CC'ing Jitka, the primary package maintainer in Fedora) +> +>[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ArtisticLicense +>[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PerlLicense diff --git a/perl.spec b/perl.spec index 04a8c42..ac32eef 100644 --- a/perl.spec +++ b/perl.spec @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Name: perl Version: %{perl_version} # release number must be even higher, because dual-lived modules will be broken otherwise -Release: 325%{?dist} +Release: 326%{?dist} Epoch: %{perl_epoch} Summary: Practical Extraction and Report Language Group: Development/Languages @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ Group: Development/Languages # Public domain: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/*, ext/Compress-Raw-Bzip2/bzip2-src/dlltest.c # MIT: ext/MIME-Base64/Base64.xs # Copyright Only: for example ext/Text-Soundex/Soundex.xs -License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and (GPLv2+ or Artistic) and Copyright Only and MIT and Public Domain and UCD +# HSRL; regexec.c +License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and (GPLv2+ or Artistic) and Copyright Only and HSRL and MIT and Public Domain and UCD Url: http://www.perl.org/ Source0: http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-%{perl_version}.tar.bz2 Source2: perl-5.8.0-libnet.cfg @@ -49,6 +50,8 @@ Source3: macros.perl # build requirement. Written by lberk; Not yet upstream. Source4: perl.stp Source5: perl-example.stp +# Tom Christiansen confirms Pod::Html uses the same license as perl +Source6: Pod-Html-license-clarification # Removes date check, Fedora/RHEL specific Patch1: perl-perlbug-tag.patch @@ -442,7 +445,7 @@ but it is a good educated guess. %package CGI Summary: Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses Group: Development/Libraries -License: GPL+ or Artistic +License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and Artistic 2.0 Epoch: 0 Version: 3.63 Requires: %perl_compat @@ -483,7 +486,7 @@ It is used by IO::Compress::Bzip2. %package Compress-Raw-Zlib Summary: Low-Level Interface to the zlib compression library Group: Development/Libraries -License: GPL+ or Artistic +License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and zlib Epoch: 0 Version: 2.065 Requires: %perl_compat @@ -719,7 +722,7 @@ bytes or bits. %package Digest-MD5 Summary: Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm Group: Development/Libraries -License: GPL+ or Artistic +License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and BSD # Epoch bump for clean upgrade over old standalone package Epoch: 0 Version: 2.53 @@ -1827,7 +1830,8 @@ Use TAP::Parser, Test::Harness package was whole rewritten. %package Test-Simple Summary: Basic utilities for writing tests Group: Development/Languages -License: GPL+ or Artistic +# NOTE: For future reference, 1.001010+ also uses the `CC0' license +License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and Public Domain Epoch: 0 Version: 1.001002 Requires: %perl_compat @@ -1928,7 +1932,7 @@ so dates before the system's epoch may not work on all operating systems. %package Time-Piece Summary: Time objects from localtime and gmtime Group: Development/Libraries -License: GPL+ or Artistic +License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and BSD Epoch: 0 Version: 1.27 Requires: %perl_compat @@ -2048,6 +2052,9 @@ perl -x patchlevel.h \ #copy the example script cp -a %{SOURCE5} . +#copy Pod-Html license clarification +cp %{SOURCE6} . + # # Candidates for doc recoding (need case by case review): # find . -name "*.pod" -o -name "README*" -o -name "*.pm" | xargs file -i | grep charset= | grep -v '\(us-ascii\|utf-8\)' @@ -2313,6 +2320,7 @@ sed \ %postun libs -p /sbin/ldconfig %files +%license Pod-Html-license-clarification %{_mandir}/man1/*.1* %{_mandir}/man3/*.3* %{_bindir}/* @@ -3870,6 +3878,11 @@ sed \ # Old changelog entries are preserved in CVS. %changelog +* Thu Apr 02 2015 Petr Šabata - 4:5.20.2-326 +- Correct license tags of the main package, CGI, Compress-Raw-Zlib, + Digest-MD5, Test-Simple and Time-Piece +- Package a Pod-Html license clarification email + * Wed Mar 25 2015 Petr Pisar - 4:5.20.2-325 - Sub-package Text-Tabs+Wrap (bug #910798)