Perl modules (license: distributable)

[Jose Pedro Oliveira]

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Paul Howarth wrote:
> Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
...
>> I expect this kind of thing is repeated; there's a copyright, but it
>> gives no hint that it can be redistributed.  Everyone assumes that
>> it's implicit because the author uploaded it to CPAN, but CPAN
>> explicitly says that you can't assume that.  At least one other module
>> is held up in review for just this issue.
>> (perl-Log-Dispatch-FileRotate, I think).
> 
> Same with perl-RPM2

The perl modules RPM2 and RPM::Specfile don't include any copyright
information in the tarballs but they are both authored by Chip Turner
which has been a RedHat empolyee for several years.

Several months ago, after Chip Turner left Red Hat, I opened two tickets
in rt.cpan (one against RPM2 and a second one against RPM::Specfile)
asking him to add copyright information to the tarballs (no answer until
now).  I don't know if Warren is still able to contact him.

jpo
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