Comments regarding libatompub-perl_0.3.4-2_amd64.changes

Ansgar Burchardt ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org
Sat Apr 23 12:08:36 UTC 2011


Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
> On 11-04-23 at 10:52am, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
>> > On 11-04-22 at 09:59pm, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> >> please also include the copyright information for the embedded 
>> >> copies of Test::More (libtest-simple-perl) and Test::Perl::Critic.
>> >> 
>> >> There are also two more copyright holders for Module::Install: 
>> >> Audrey Tang <autrijus at autrijus.org> and Brian Ingerson 
>> >> <ingy at cpan.org> (see the copyright information in 
>> >> libmodule-install-perl).
>> >
>> > Either I do not agree or do not understand the reasoning of your 
>> > request.
>> >
>> > I agree that the full libraries of Test::More, Test::Perl::Critic 
>> > and Module::Install has more documented authors and more stated 
>> > copyright holders than the parts included with Atompub, but I fail 
>> > to understand why those other parts not included here should be 
>> > documented here?
>> 
>> The embedded copies have all documentation, including copyright 
>> information, removed.  This does not change the fact that there are 
>> (other) copyright holders for the files shipped with Atompub.
>
> How do you mean "removed"?
>
> If you mean that some files have been edited to no longer contain the 
> copyright statements as in the upstream code, then I fail to locate any 
> such cases when comparing.

There is no copyright information for inc/Test/More.pm included, but
Test::More is copyright 2001-2008 by Michael G Schwern according to
lib/Test/More.pm included in libtest-simple-perl.  The same applies for
the other files in inc/ (with other copyright holders of course).

> If you mean that _other_ parts of upstream code than the inc/ subdir 
> contains _other_ copyright statements than those inside of inc/ then I 
> agree with you, but fail to understand how that is relevant here.

No, I'm just talking about files in inc/.

Regards,
Ansgar



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