Dear monks,

I'm an adept of CPAN module-building (Data::Pareto); playing with different installers, I tried Module::Install.

What drawn my attention was the warning

WARNING: 'All rights reserved' in copyright may invalidate Open Source license.

The referred licence text is as follows:

Copyright 2009 Me, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
itself.

[download]

and was generated with Module::Starter:

$ module-starter --module=Data::Pareto --author=Me --email=no@mail.com
+ --mi

[download]

looking into Module/Install/Metadata.pm we can see that such warning is issued for every OSI-approved license with rights-reservation sentence.

Any real reasons to issue such warning? I see a lot of CPAN modules to use `all rights reserved' form.

In reply to License issues in Module::Install by przemo

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