Bug#467267: libtime-piece-perl: new upstream release needed for Perl 5.10

[Niko Tyni]

clone 467267 -1
retitle -1 libtime-piece-perl: no copyright notices in the upstream source
severity -1 normal
tag -1 upstream
notforwarded 467267
thanks

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:40:12PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:34:17 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > This means that versioned dependencies on libtime-piece-perl can't be
> > satisfied with the new version of perl installed, until
> > libtime-piece-perl is updated.
> 
> libtime-piece-perl 1.12-1 is in svn for some time, but I've left it
> as "UNRELEASED" because I couldn't find anything that at least slight
> resembles a copyright statement in the source code.
> 
> Filed as http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33334 , no
> reaction so far.

Well, as this is not a regression from 1.11, it's a separate issue.
I'm cloning a new bug for it. I'll upload 1.12-1 for the Perl 5.10
transition soon.

Personally, I don't really think missing copyright notices should be a
stopper for us at all, as long as there's the license information. Just
document the assumption that the listed upstream authors are the copyright
holders. As far as I understand, the Berne Convention guarantees automatic
copyright even without the notices, and the notices are mostly required
for proving 'willful infringement' in the US.

Downgrading the copyright issue to 'normal' for now, but I could be wrong...

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org