Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, for grins I looked to see how you license your modules. Your
> license/copyright statement is in the README, not the POD so after
> the module is installed, the license statement disappears [ unless
> the user keeps the source dir around ]. The user, in the future will
> either need to find the source dist for that version again or email
> the author to clarify the license terms. I don't see how this is
> different than not stating your license explicitly in the POD.
> This is indeed a problem. The license statement should be in the source
> files, so it can't get separated from them. Russ, how about if you fix
> this, as a way to set a good example for everyone else?
Elaine is partly mistaken. All of the modules I have released have, at
the top of every source file, the statement:
# Copyright <years> by Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the same terms as Perl itself.
She's correct that it's not also in the POD, and I do plan on fixing that
with my next round of releases, but that's a question of convenience more
than anything else. Anyone who looked at the source or went to modify it
would see the license statement.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
