Ticket #710 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

share/doc/perlopref.pod missing author/license

Reported by: dam Owned by: azawawi
Priority: critical Milestone:
Component: downstream Version: 0.48
Keywords: licensing Cc:

Description

Hi,

It seems share/doc/perlopref.pod is missing any licensing and authorship information. Tracing the SVN logs, it looks like a copy of ​http://github.com/cowens/perlopref, although even there there is no license.

This file is not distributable as it is. Ideally, it shall include information about author(s), copyright holder(s), years of copyright and license.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by azawawi

  • Owner set to azawawi
  • Status changed from new to assigned

comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by azawawi

I sent an email to the maintainer (Chas Owens) asking him to add a license. Once he replies we can use the following command to update it: 

<$PADRE_TRUNK\Padre> perl ..\tools\update_perlopref.pl

If you also empty the file, it will work. Deleting it will cause F2 functionality to stop working for Perl 5 documents.

comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by azawawi

  • Priority changed from major to critical

comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by azawawi

  • Component changed from editor to downstream

comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by azawawi

Great news!

From Chas Cowens (by email), "...The intended license is the same as Perl: Artistic or
GPLv1 (or later). I will add some licensing files to the GitHub? repo
today or tomorrow; hopefully that will clear up any licensing issues..."

comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by dam

Cool.

What about authorship/copyright?

an ideal boilerplate looks like.

Copyright <years> <holder>

You may ..... <license text>

Many thanks!

comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by azawawi

  • Status changed from assigned to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

Fixed in r9082

Please re-open if you find something missing.

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