Hi, While packaging your module Math::Libm for Debian, I noticed that it doesn't seem to mention any licensing information, not even "same as Perl" or anything like that. License information is needed in order for us (and others) to be able to legally distribute the software. Could you please give us (replying to this email is fine) the license that Math::Libm is distributed under?
This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that both copyright and licensing information is vital for the continued success of open source software. Copyright is what allows you to assert a license, and a license is what gives others the rights to use and re-distribute your software. A great article discussing some of this is "What is Copyleft?" by Richard Stallman: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for the noise, as I understand that the last thing most authors want to deal with is legal administrivia like this. I do hope, however, that you could (in your continued generosity) help us with this request. Please also consider adding these statements to your code/package README, since we must distribute some evidence of copyright information if it is not in the source package itself. Cheers, Florian On behalf of the Debian Perl Team -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121105220948.gq864...@zedat.fu-berlin.de
