psabata pushed to perl (f22). "Correct license tags (..more)"
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Petr=20=C5=A0abata?= <contyk at redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 17:23:16 +0200
Subject: Correct license tags
Correct license tags of the main package, CGI, Compress-Raw-Zlib,
Digest-MD5, Test-Simple and Time-Piece and package a Pod-Html license
clarification email from Tom.
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 <tchrist53147 at gmail.com>
+To: Petr Šabata <contyk at redhat.com>
+Cc: Tom Christiansen <tchrist at perl.com>, marcgreen at cpan.org,
+ jplesnik at 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 <contyk at redhat.com> 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 52540f0..c588f2f 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: 322%{?dist}
+Release: 323%{?dist}
Epoch: %{perl_epoch}
Summary: Practical Extraction and Report Language
Group: Development/Languages
@@ -39,8 +39,10 @@ Group: Development/Languages
# under UCD are unicode tables
# 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
+# Copyright Only: for example ext/Text-Soundex/Soundex.xs
+# HSRL; regexec.c
+# TTWL: Text-Tabs+Wrap
+License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and (GPLv2+ or Artistic) and Copyright Only and HSPL and MIT and Public Domain and TTWL 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 +51,8 @@ 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
@@ -386,7 +390,7 @@ 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
@@ -415,7 +419,7 @@ with built-in support for mod_perl and mod_perl2 as well as FastCGI.
%package Compress-Raw-Bzip2
Summary: Low-Level Interface to bzip2 compression library
Group: Development/Libraries
-License: GPL+ or Artistic
+License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and zlib
Epoch: 0
Version: 2.064
Requires: perl(Exporter), perl(File::Temp)
@@ -663,7 +667,7 @@ 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
@@ -1729,7 +1733,7 @@ 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
+License: (GPL+ or Artistic) and Public Domain
Epoch: 0
Version: 1.001002
Requires: %perl_compat
@@ -1814,7 +1818,7 @@ 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
@@ -2029,6 +2033,9 @@ 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 '\(us-ascii\|utf-8\)'
@@ -2294,7 +2301,7 @@ sed \
%postun libs -p /sbin/ldconfig
%files
-%doc Artistic AUTHORS Copying README Changes
+%doc Artistic AUTHORS Copying README Changes Pod-Html-license-clarification
%{_mandir}/man1/*.1*
%{_mandir}/man3/*.3*
%{_bindir}/*
@@ -3831,6 +3838,11 @@ sed \
# Old changelog entries are preserved in CVS.
%changelog
+* Thu Apr 02 2015 Petr Šabata <contyk at redhat.com> - 4:5.20.2-323
+- 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
+
* Thu Mar 19 2015 Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk> - 4:5.20.2-322
- Add systemtap probes for new dtrace markers
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