[Dev] Fwd: [rt.cpan.org #112535] Licensing Issue in Perl-FCGI

Luke Shumaker lukeshu at sbcglobal.net
Thu Mar 10 14:56:30 GMT 2016


On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:20:31 -0500,
Luke wrote:
> FYI.
> https://metacpan.org/source/ETHER/FCGI-0.78/LICENSE
> 
> If any legal experts are among us, maybe it is possible to remove this
> package from non-free blacklist.
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message -------- 
> 
>  Subject:   [rt.cpan.org #112535] Licensing Issue in Perl-FCGI 
>  Date:      Sun, 6 Mar 2016 19:08:52 -0500                     
>  From:      Karen Etheridge via RT <bug-FCGI at rt.cpan.org>      
>  Reply-To:  bug-FCGI at rt.cpan.org                               
>  To:        g4jc at openmailbox.org                               
> 
> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=112535 >
> 
> I have updated the licencing information in the 0.78 release. Please
> confirm that these changes were adequate and acceptable for your
> distribution policies.

The license in 0.78 looks good to me from a freedom perspective.  If I
were them, I'd reword parts of it and have a lawyer look over it (or
just choose a standard license).  But, for Parabola's purposes, it's
fine.

-- 
Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker



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