[libperlx-maybe-xs-perl] 01/02: Update copyright info: Update coverage for CONTRIBUTING file (freeing 2k of legalese).

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Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
Date:   Fri May 30 18:57:32 2014 +0200

    Update copyright info: Update coverage for CONTRIBUTING file (freeing 2k of legalese).
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 debian/copyright | 277 +++++--------------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 256 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 08734c6..7dddb6b 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -19,15 +19,31 @@ Comment:
  General Public License' version 1 or later.
 
 Files: CONTRIBUTING
-Copyright: 2012, Toby Inkster <tobyink at cpan.org>
-License: CC-BY-SA_UK-2.0
+Copyright: 2012-2014, Toby Inkster <tobyink at cpan.org>
+License: Artistic or GPL-1+
 Comment:
  License:
  .
- HACKING.pod is licensed under the Creative Commons
- Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. To view a copy
- of this license, visit
+ CONTRIBUTING is available under three different licences permitting its
+ redistribution: the CC-BY-SA_UK-2.0 licence, plus the same licences as
+ Perl itself, which is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence
+ version 1, and the Artistic Licence.
+ .
+ This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
+ 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. To view a copy of this license, visit
  <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/>.
+ .
+ This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
+ .
+ Comment:
+ .
+ Above is from <https://gist.github.com/tobyink/fbafb504f85c833c039f>,
+ which supercedes the included CONTRIBUTING file as announced at
+ <https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-perl-maintainers/2014-May/077653.html>.
+ .
+ The CC-BY-SA_UK-2.0 licensing was deliberately omitted to avoid 2k of
+ unneeded legalese in this file.
 
 Files: pport.h
 Copyright: 1999, Kenneth Albanowski
@@ -76,254 +92,3 @@ License: GPL-3+
  .
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