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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 21:22:10 -0600
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Subject: Re: Pod::Html license
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From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist53147@gmail.com>
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To: Petr Šabata <contyk@redhat.com>
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Cc: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>, marcgreen@cpan.org,
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 jplesnik@redhat.com
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Yes, it was supposed to be licensed just like the rest of Perl.
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Petr Šabata <contyk@redhat.com> wrote:
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>Marc, Tom,
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>I'm reviewing licensing of our perl package in Fedora and 
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>noticed Pod::HTML and its pod2html script are licensed under
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>the Artistic license (only).
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>This is an issue for us as this license isn't considered free by
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>FSF [0].  Unless the license of this core component changes, we
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>will have to drop it from the tarball and remove support for it
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>from all the modules we ship that use it, such as Module::Build
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>or Module::Install.
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>What I've seen in the past is authors originally claiming their
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>module was released under Artistic while what they actually meant
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>was the common `the same as perl itself', i.e. `GPL+/Aristic' [1],
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>an FSF free license.  Is it possible this is also the case
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>of Pod::Html?
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>Thanks,
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>Petr
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>(also CC'ing Jitka, the primary package maintainer in Fedora)
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>[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ArtisticLicense
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>[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PerlLicense