Request for review: perl-Number-Compare

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Jul 1 13:16:56 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:48 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 07:42 -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 11:52 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > 
> > > Neither do I; I was just seeking other opinions, because it conflicts 
> > > with a MUST in the package review checklist and lots of existing 
> > > packages have this issue.
> > 
> > The whole point of the license include MUST is two-fold:
> > 
> > 1. To remove any and all confusion as to which license(s) the package is
> > under
> > 
> > 2. To be extra sure we're conforming to those licenses that requires the
> > license text to be included (and or prominently displayed).
> > 
> > Take ten seconds, dump the perl license into a text file, and include it
> > as a Source1. :)
> C'mon, that's more papal than the pope #:( )

*waves his holy packaging stick around* 

C'mon. It will take you 10 seconds, then you can use it for every
genericly licensed perl package you ever build.

It's not like I asked you to memorize all seven parts of "The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner" in Latin. ;)

~spot
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