Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Retout <dioc...@debian.org>
* Package name : libdata-uuid-perl Version : 1.217 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes <rjbs[at]cpan.org> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-UUID/ * License : BSD-like Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module for generating UUIDs Data::UUID provides a framework for generating v3 UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers, also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers). A UUID is 128 bits long, and is guaranteed to be different from all other UUIDs/GUIDs generated until 3400 CE. . The algorithm for UUID generation, used by this extension, is described in the Internet Draft "UUIDs and GUIDs" by Paul J. Leach and Rich Salz. (See RFC 4122.) It provides reasonably efficient and reliable framework for generating UUIDs and supports fairly high allocation rates -- 10 million per second per machine -- and therefore is suitable for identifying both extremely short-lived and very persistent objects on a given system as well as across the network. (end of description) libossp-uuid-perl already provides a version of Data::UUID, but it differs from the real Data::UUID in subtle ways. Since the ITP for that package [0] was filed, Data::UUID upstream added a license file (Nov 2008). [0] http://bugs.debian.org/283493 License file: This distribution contains code derived from the sample UUID implementation in RFC 4122, which contains the following clause. /* ** Copyright (c) 1990- 1993, 1996 Open Software Foundation, Inc. ** Copyright (c) 1989 by Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, Ca. & ** Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass. ** Copyright (c) 1998 Microsoft. ** To anyone who acknowledges that this file is provided "AS IS" ** without any express or implied warranty: permission to use, copy, ** modify, and distribute this file for any purpose is hereby ** granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notices and ** this notice appears in all source code copies, and that none of ** the names of Open Software Foundation, Inc., Hewlett-Packard ** Company, Microsoft, or Digital Equipment Corporation be used in ** advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software ** without specific, written prior permission. Neither Open Software ** Foundation, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Microsoft, nor Digital ** Equipment Corporation makes any representations about the ** suitability of this software for any purpose. */ The same terms apply to this code. -- 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/20110704011807.8341.85428.report...@arneb.retout.co.uk
