License for perl-MemHandle

[Jitka Plesnikova]

Hi,

the package perl-MemHandle doesn't contain any license/copyright text.
It was already reported to upstream:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75350

The previous owner set the License tag to 'Public domain'.
I want to knowas if I can use 'LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain' or 
anything else?

Thank for any help,
Jitka

[Richard Fontana]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 5:31 AM Jitka Plesnikova  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the package perl-MemHandle doesn't contain any license/copyright text.
> It was already reported to upstream:
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75350
>
> The previous owner set the License tag to 'Public domain'.
> I want to knowas if I can use 'LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain' or
> anything else?

I suggest:

- If you can contact the previous owner, find out why they set it to
"public domain"
- If that doesn't work, or in parallel, try to contact the upstream
author (through some means other than CPAN)

As it currently stands I'm concerned that "public domain" may have
been included without any justification. Of course in all likelihood
the author intended to put it under "the same terms as Perl" but we
can't just assume that.

Richard