in reply to Debian removed perlreftut

From perlreftut ...

"Distribution Conditions"
    
Copyright 1998 The Perl Journal.

When included as part of the Standard Version of Perl, or as part of
its complete documentation whether printed or otherwise, this work may
be distributed only under the terms of Perl's Artistic License.  Any
distribution of this file or derivatives thereof outside of that
package require that special arrangements be made with copyright
holder.

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Cursed by it's own hubris ... *chuckle*

 

perl -le 'print+unpack"N",pack"B32","00000000000000000000001001111001"'

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Re: Re: Debian removed perlreftut
by halley (Prior) on Aug 13, 2003 at 15:20 UTC
    Perhaps the author of the perlreftut could be persuaded to s/terms of Perl's Artistic License/same terms as Perl itself/. I've seen a lot of files which specify the former, because it used to mean the same thing.

    Why isn't perlreftut kept in the core package with other perl docs, anyway? It looks like the perlreftut author's issue is when the file is published where perl or other complete Perl documentation isn't included.

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      Perhaps the author of the perlreftut could be persuaded to s/terms of Perl's Artistic License/same terms as Perl itself/. I've seen a lot of files which specify the former, because it used to mean the same thing.

      Really? They haven't meant the same thing since Perl was dual licensed. Which happened even before perl4. Same terms as Perl itself means accepting either the Perl's Artistic License, or the GNU Public License.

      But note that even if you can get the copyright holder (which isn't the same as the author), to make this change, it's not going to satisfy Debian. And rightly so. Something that is more worrysome for them is that you are only allowed to distribute perlreftut as part of the Perl package, and not separately.

      Abigail

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