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2.3 KiB
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Set-Object used to be licensed under the Perl Artistic license, and
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the documentation still says so (I expect it being updated with the
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next upstream release). Due to the artistic license not being
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accepted as free license by the FSF I've asked the authors whenever
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they agree to relicense the package and fortunaly they did, so the
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package now carries the same license as perl itself (which is the
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choice between Artistic and GPL).
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See also:
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http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467175
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The relevant messages from the authors (Jean-Louis Leroy and Sam
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Vilain) are listed below.
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From: "jl" <jl@yorel.be>
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Set-Object license question
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Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:51:51 +0100
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Hello Gerd.
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I agree to relicense Set::Object under the same terms as (current) Perl
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itself - which is probably the choice between two licenses: Artistic 2.0 and
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GPL.
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Cordially,
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Jean-Louis
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Subject: Re: Set-Object license question
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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:33:23 +1300
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On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:58 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
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> Sam Vilain wrote:
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> > AFAIK the original author has not responded to requests for relicensing
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> > under GPLv2.
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>
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> You are refering to Jean-Louis Leroy I guess?
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That's right, of Sound Object Logic.
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> > Could get a notary public to serve them notice of the intention to
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> > relicense Set::Object as GPL under the requirements of the license for
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> > Tangram. If they don't make claim, then it should be able to be
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> > relicensed, I'd guess.
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>
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> I think I'll better try again asking by email first.
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>
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> Given you apparently tried already to get it re-licenced I assume you
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> are fine with GPL, right?
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>
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> What about "Catalyst IT (NZ) Limited" listed in the man-page? Given you
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> are still listed as maintainer @ CPAN I assume this is the company you
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> are working for?
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Yes, I can speak for that copyright holder, and they are happy to
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license under any FSF-approved Free Software license, including the Perl
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Artistic/GPL disjunction.
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Contact Jean-Louis - if nothing comes back I might have to investigate a
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rewrite.
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Cheers,
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Sam.
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