Bug#497694: libaudio-cd-perl: problematic license

[gregor herrmann]

Package: libaudio-cd-perl
Version: 0.05-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1

Ansgar Burchardt has discovered that audio-cd contains a problematic
license in the 0.05 release. README and CD.{xs,pm} say:

  Copyright (C) 1999-2002 by Doug MacEachern

  When included as part of the Standard Version of Perl or as
  part of its complete documentation whether printed or
  otherwise, this work may be distributed only under the terms
  of Perl's Artistic License as included in the file COPYING.
  Any distribution of this file or derivatives thereof outside
  of that package requires that special arrangements be made
  with copyright holder.

The second sentence limits distribution of derived works, and it is
probably problematic for the distribution of the module itself.

Cf. also the thread starting at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2008/09/msg00006.html

I file this bug against version 0.05-3 (sarge), probably 0.05-2 (the
first version in Debian) has the same conditions.


And now I'm going to try to contact the upstream author.

Cheers,
gregor