Comments regarding libsereal-decoder-perl_0.31-1_amd64.changes

Alex Mestiashvili alex at biotec.tu-dresden.de
Tue Apr 30 14:29:22 UTC 2013


On 03/27/2013 05:11 PM, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:55:35 +0000, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>
>   
>> I think the "parts taken from JSON::XS" and BSD-3-clause bits from this section:
>>
>> ----
>> Files: lib/Sereal/Decoder.pm
>> Copyright:
>>  2012-2013, Steffen Mueller <smueller at cpan.org>
>>  2012-2013, Yves Orton <yves at cpan.org>
>> License: Artistic or GPL-1+ or BSD-3-clause
>> Comment: portions taken from JSON::XS,
>>  Copyright: 2007-2011, Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de>,
>>  License: Artistic or GPL-1+
>> ----
>>
>> refer not only to code in lib/Sereal/Decoder.pm, but rather all files (e.g. the
>> BSD-3-clause bit is about snappy/*).
>>     
> My impression after taking another look is:
>
> - the "parts taken from JSON::XS" comment actually belongs in a new
>   "Files: srl_common.h" section because that's the file which takes
>   parts from JSON:XS (or is there more?)
> - "BSD-3-clause" is indeed wrong here, but IMO it doesn't belong to
>   "Files: *" but only to "snappy/*" (where it already is), at least
>   I don't see any BSD licensed code anywhere else
>  
>   
>> The BSD-3-clause license is also no alternative (i.e. no "or"), but parts of
>> the code are *only* under the BSD-3-clause license.
>>     
> Ack.
>
> Thanks for these hints, and sorry for the mistakes!
>
> Cheers,
> gregor
>
>   


Hi Gregor,

I've updated libsereal-encoder-perl according
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-perl-maintainers/2013-March/060871.html
Could you please have a look if it is correct?

Thank you,
Alex



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