From: "Allen Day" <allenday@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: License terms for perl-SVG-Graph?
To: "Alex Lancaster" <alexl@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:47:21 -0700
Reply-To: allenday@ucla.edu                                                     

Hi Alex,

My oversight.  It's released under the Artistic License.

-Allen

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