Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:39:56 -0800
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@blackperl.com>
To: Nick B <nsboyle@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fedora package for RPC-XML
Consider this confirmation that you may distribute it under the Artistic
License 2.0, as specified at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0.php
I am in the process of revising the licensing on all of my modules to be
dual-licensed under the above and also LGPL 2.1 as specified at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php
However, because of other patches that have to be applied, integrated and
tested, it may be some time before a new RPC-XML release is made. Please take
this message as explicit permission to package and release under the licensing
terms you require. Thank you.
Randy
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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:09:04 -0500
From: "Nick B" <nsboyle@gmail.com>
To: rjray@blackperl.com
Subject: Fedora package for RPC-XML
Randy,
I've submitted a review request for RPC-XML with the Fedora project,
for inclusion in the official repository
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435835).
There is one minor obstacle I've encountered in putting together the
package; here is your licensing specification from XML.pm:
# Copying and distribution are permitted under the terms of the Artistic
# License as distributed with Perl versions 5.005 and later. See
# http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php
The link above is broken, and the sentence is open to interpretation
over whether your intent is to have it licensed under the original
Artistic license (1.0), or the current (2.0). The former, 1.0, is
unfortunately incompatible with Fedora's guidelines regarding
licensing. I had originally interpreted "and later" to implicitly
mean the later versions of licenses to go along with the later
versions of Perl, but it was suggested that I should confirm with you
first.
I can package it under 2.0, but I need your confirmation via e-mail
that this is okay. Let me know your thoughts on this.
Thanks,
Nick