Hi Niko, thanks for following up on this. The license is indeed the usual "same terms as perl itself". All Perl stuff I've ever released has been so.
Thanks, -Ken On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Ken, > > the CPAN-Meta distribution recently included historic versions > of the META.yml specification documents [1], with a preface saying > > This is a historical copy of the version 1.0 specification for > F<META.yml> files, copyright by Ken Williams. > > However, no mention of the license of these documents is mentioned, and > I couldn't find such information on the web either. Could you please > give an explicit license statement about them? > > For maximum compatibility, I hope the license is something like the usual > 'same terms as perl itself', but if it isn't, there's even more reason > to let the world know :) > > I think a reply to this email (cc'd to 783...@bugs.debian.org, > where we're tracking this on the Debian side) should be fine. > I'm happy to relay the license information to the CPAN-Meta authors so > they can include the licensing information in future versions. > > [1] example: > > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DAGOLDEN/CPAN-Meta-2.150002-TRIAL/lib/CPAN/Meta/History/Meta_1_0.pod > > Many thanks for your work on free software, and apologies for having to > bother you with such trivialities. > -- > Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org >
