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Subject: Re: License of perl-NetAddr-IP
From: "Luis E." =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz?= <lem@itverx.com.ve>
To: "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:16:59 -0430
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 10:55 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> I've been trying to contact you over the last year without any luck.
> Currently, Fedora is including NetAddr::IP, which is licensed under
> the
> Artistic 1.0 license. This license is no longer a permitted license in
> Fedora.
Hi Tom and thanks for getting in touch.
Why do you say that the code is licensed under the 1.0 license?
According to this excerpt (from
http://search.cpan.org/src/LUISMUNOZ/NetAddr-IP-4.007/README )...
# LICENSE AND WARRANTY
#
# This software is (c) Luis E. Muñoz and Michael A. Robinton. It can be
# used under the terms of the perl artistic license provided that proper
# credit for the work of the authors is preserved in the form of this
# copyright notice and license for this module.
... there is no mention to a specific version number for the license.
> [...] We have several other popular applications which depend on your
> code, so
> I am hopeful that you will be willing to relicense (either to Artistic
> 2.0 or any other license of your choice on this list:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Good_Licenses ) or dual
> license
> (for example, the same license as perl, GPL+ or Artistic).
I would be willing to relicense to Artistic 2.0 if need be. However, the
code is rather stable at this time. I think it would not be a wise use
of time to start tracking "upstream license version number" as well :-)
Regards.
-lem
Subject: Re: License of perl-NetAddr-IP
From: "Luis E." =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz?= <lem@itverx.com.ve>
To: "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:06:33 -0430
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 11:57 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> In the interim, will you give Fedora permission to distribute this
> code
> under Artistic 2.0?
Of course. I'll tack a note to update the wording in the next release.
Best regards.
-lem
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