Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov <d...@debian.org>
* Package name : libdbd-interbase-perl Version : 0.48 Upstream Author : Edwin Pratomo <edprat...@cpan.org> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-InterBase/ License : GPL-1+ or Artistic with restrictions (non-free) Programming Lang: C, Perl Description : DBI driver for Firebird and InterBase DBD::InterBase is a Perl module which works with the DBI module to provide access to Firebird and InterBase databases. . DBI is the standard database interface layer for Perl. This would go in non-free, because of the following license terms: The DBD::InterBase module is free software. You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file, with the exception that it cannot be placed on a CD-ROM or similar media for commercial distribution without the prior approval of the author. A very early discussion about the restriction is available at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00305.html There are opinions that the restriction was copied verbatim from the dbd-oracle module and there is effort to drop it (it was dropped in dbd-oracle). In the mean time, non-free/perl it is. A ticket has been filed upstream about dropping the restriction (https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63226) The package will be maintained under the pkg-perl umbrella, but I have decided to go with Git for source management. Sorry guys, the ability to work detached from the network is very important to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101122080114.15385.18049.report...@pc1.creditreform.bg
