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From: "Allen Day" <allenday@ucla.edu>
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Subject: Re: License terms for perl-SVG-Graph?
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To: "Alex Lancaster" <alexl@users.sourceforge.net>
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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:47:21 -0700
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Reply-To: allenday@ucla.edu
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Hi Alex,
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My oversight. It's released under the Artistic License.
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-Allen
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On 3/26/07, Alex Lancaster <alexl@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> Dear Allen and Chris,
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> I am trying to package your Perl package SVG-Graph as part of the
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> Fedora Linux distribution (it is also required as a dependency for
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> bioperl), see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/233848 for this discussion.
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> In order to distribute the package, however, we need to clarify the
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> license, currently the only mention is the following:
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> COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
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> Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Allen Day <allenday@ucla.edu>,
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> Chris To <crsto@ucla.edu>
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> However, that only states the copyright owners (yourselves), but
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> doesn't state the license distribution terms. Could you clarify your
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> intentions with respect to the license? Usually most CPAN Perl
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> modules are distributed under the same terms as Perl, that is can be
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> distributed under the terms of either "Artistic" or the GNU GPL
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> license.
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> If so, could you please include state so *explicitly* in your package,
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> or otherwise indicate to me that the package can be distributed under
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> a suitable open source license, see:
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> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#head-76294f12c6b481792eb00\
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1ba9763d95e2792e825
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> for a list of acceptable licenses.
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> Best regards,
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> Alex Lancaster
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> - --
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> Alex Lancaster | Free Software Developer: savannah.gnu.org, sourceforge.ne\
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