I've just discovered dev-perl/Ace has some fun questionable licensing which includes a lovely indemnity clause, which had previously gone unnoticed, and it stipulates additional requests for research publications, which is not something mentioned in any license currently in tree other than Tinker
Following is the entire body of the license I plan to put in licenses/AcePerl-Indemnity ( name chosen to specifically alert people tempted to accept this license that Indemnification is an important part they should actually read ) Current advice also says that due to the terms of this license, we have to RESTRICT="mirror" this as well, unless the Trustees want to sign off on potentially indemnifying CSHL Also following up with CPAN because as its *currently* mirrored on CPAN, and has been mirrored there for at *least* 12 years, its potentially in a legal situation as well. ( But that's the fault of the uploader if true, because you can't upload anything to CPAN without mirroring being something you didn't expect ) Once this license is added, the plan is to rework Ace-*.ebuild to be under LICENSE="|| ( Artistic GPL-1+ ) AcePerl-Indemnity" Upstream: https://metacpan.org/source/LDS/AcePerl-1.92/DISCLAIMER.txt Text Body: ============== The Ace.pm package and all associated files are Copyright (c) 1998 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See the Artistic License file in the main Perl distribution for specific terms and conditions of use. In addition, the following disclaimers apply: CSHL makes no representations whatsoever as to the SOFTWARE contained herein. It is experimental in nature and is provided WITHOUT WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR ANY OTHER WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. CSHL MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY PATENT OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT. By downloading this SOFTWARE, your Institution hereby indemnifies CSHL against any loss, claim, damage or liability, of whatsoever kind or nature, which may arise from your Institution's respective use, handling or storage of the SOFTWARE. If publications result from research using this SOFTWARE, we ask that CSHL be acknowledged and/or credit be given to CSHL scientists, as scientifically appropriate. ==============
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