Bug#783201: licensing of historic META.yml specs

[Ken Williams]

Hi Niko, thanks for following up on this.  The license is indeed the usual
"same terms as perl itself".  All Perl stuff I've ever released has been so.

Thanks,

 -Ken


On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> the CPAN-Meta distribution recently included historic versions
> of the META.yml specification documents [1], with a preface saying
>
>   This is a historical copy of the version 1.0 specification for
>   F<META.yml> files, copyright by Ken Williams.
>
> However, no mention of the license of these documents is mentioned, and
> I couldn't find such information on the web either. Could you please
> give an explicit license statement about them?
>
> For maximum compatibility, I hope the license is something like the usual
> 'same terms as perl itself', but if it isn't, there's even more reason
> to let the world know :)
>
> I think a reply to this email (cc'd to 783201 at bugs.debian.org,
> where we're tracking this on the Debian side) should be fine.
> I'm happy to relay the license information to the CPAN-Meta authors so
> they can include the licensing information in future versions.
>
> [1] example:
>
> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DAGOLDEN/CPAN-Meta-2.150002-TRIAL/lib/CPAN/Meta/History/Meta_1_0.pod
>
> Many thanks for your work on free software, and apologies for having to
> bother you with such trivialities.
> --
> Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
>
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