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

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| gregor herrmann, Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 03:56:44PM +0200 |=-
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:20:00 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> 
> > And now I'm going to try to contact the upstream author.
> 
> Doug has responded via private mail. Summary:
> * 0.04 was his last release and he doesn't maintain the module
>   anymore
> * it should have been licensed "under the same terms as Perl itself"
> * he is not familiar with the 0.05 version

Sounds like a good news

> I've done two things now:
> * contacted the author of disc-cover (Audio::CD 0.05 is downloaded
>   from the disc-cover homepage) and asked him for help
> * installed 0.04 on my machine and tested yaret and disc-cover --
>   both seem to work, so we could upload a 1:0.04-1 package (if the

Hm. I have a strange feeling of inreversibility about epochs :) Can it 
be 0.05+really0.04 instead? Only if you consider this less ugly than 
an epoch :)

>   author's statement in a private mail is "good enough" for us)

I guess it is. The mail would have to be quoted (Recieved headers 
included) in debian/copyright.

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