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Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL
- To: Ken Williams <ken at forum dot swarthmore dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Automake: use of modified Perl modules & GPL
- From: Graham Barr <gbarr at pobox dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 07:52:01 +0100
- Cc: "Andreas J. Koenig" <andreas dot koenig at anima dot de>, Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask at develooper dot com>, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>, Elaine -HFB- Ashton <elaine at chaos dot wustl dot edu>, rms at gnu dot org, automake at gnu dot org, cpan at perl dot org, cpan-testers at perl dot org
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:20:32AM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
> andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig) wrote:
>
> >>>>>> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:58:46 -0700 (PDT), Ask Bjoern Hansen
> ><ask@develooper.com> said:
> >
> > > What should we standardize on looking for? I would think looking
> > > for either of the two ways to include the license I described above
> > > would work well. Comments?
> >
> >We should adjust the CC list first. Would this be a perl5-porters
> >topic?
>
> What was the original forum? We cpan-testers got into the conversation
> midway, and I'd like to read about the motivation for this initiative.
Likewise.
I can easily modify search.cpan.org to show a link for any file
called LICENSE. But there was some mention about picking it out from
POD too, but it was unclear about the reason.
Graham.