Bug#879564: libauthen-cas-client-perl: Unusable "license" in version 0.08 (not in Debian)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 08:49:24PM +0000, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> Package: src:libauthen-cas-client-perl
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> Forwarded: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122237
> 
> Upstream has changed the license of Authen-CAS-Client to the following:
> 
>   This software is information.
>   It is subject only to local laws of physics.
> 
> This seems to me not to be distributable by Debian. Luckily, the version 
> we do ship (0.07) has the 'Expat' license.

https://sources.debian.org/src/libauthen-cas-client-perl/0.08-2/Changes

  * updated to 'Nil' license

I have the impression this software is placed in the public domain
by the author (which is DFSG-compatible).

> I am filing this bug so that the issue becomes a bit more visible.
> 
> Maybe we shall consider removing this from Debian (popcon 222; vote 149); 
> or maybe somebody would want to fork.
> 
> There is one reverse dependency, libapache2-authcassimple-perl (popcon 
> 21; vote 2), which has no reverse dependencies.

When the situation is unclear, asking the author is also an option.

> -- dam

cu
Adrian