Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : libafs-perl Version : 2.2.3 Upstream Author : Norbert Gruener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/kwiki/nog/afsperl/ * License : GPL or Artistic (Artistic in practice, see below) Description : Perl interface to the AFS distributed filesystem AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management. This package provides Perl bindings to the AFS APIs, including support for doing in Perl nearly all of the operations possible with the AFS client programs. Note that the licensing on this package is a bit subtle, although it shouldn't be a serious problem. The module is licensed under the standard Perl terms of the user's choice of GPL or Artistic, but OpenAFS is licensed under the IBM Public License, which is DFSG-free but incompatible with the GPL. Therefore, the Artistic license is the license one has to consider when looking at the combined work. Also, the upstream source includes a copyright notice and license from Stanford University for the original version of the module. This is our old license agreement, which is not clearly DFSG-free (it doesn't clearly grant the right to distribute modifications). However, Stanford University has since relicensed the original code under the DFSG-free MIT license that's compatible with most everything. I've told the upstream author about this, and this will also be clearly noted in the copyright file of the package. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
