FS#7172 - Licenses: Artistic

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Georg Grabler (STiAT) - Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 19:08 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 14:04 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.8 Voodoo
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I want another license to be added. I didn't know where to put this request, but since it's about perl licenses, i decided to put it in the Packages:Current.

Perl has currently two common licenses which are used:
The perl license itself (currently GPL2) and an artistic license.

A lot of modules use "This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.".

Some others use the artistic perl license (very common), found there
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlartistic.html

And i'd like to have it placed in common, since it's common that perl modules use it, just some are distributed under the terms of perl.

Thanks,
Georg
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 14:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed in 2.0 pkg
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 17 May 2007, 05:01 GMT
Do you happen to have a URL with the plain text license?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 17 May 2007, 05:13 GMT
hmmm
perldoc -Tt perlartistic > license.txt works fine....

Should the directory be "PERLARTISTIC" then?

I'll add the licenses package to my TODO list, as there's a few other ones we wanted to add too
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 17 May 2007, 09:22 GMT
Aaron, please add a link to full text to this page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Licenses
Additionally, why "PERLARTISTIC" directory? Why not "Artistic"? (or even make all license dirs lowercase)

EDIT: could you please add ISC license too?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 17 May 2007, 15:29 GMT
"Perl Artistic" is the name of the license... at least, that's the name that is used to reference it in perldoc

See the SYNOPSIS on the license text above.

(Regarding the edit, I will spruce up the license package later today)
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 11 July 2007, 13:32 GMT
Aaron...still doing this later today? :P

I'm willing to maintain this, but need a little guidance here. Which version of the artistic license?

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