[libtext-greeking-perl] 06/09: Update debian/copyright to clarify the confusion around variants of the Artistic license.

Niko Tyni ntyni at moszumanska.debian.org
Sat Oct 11 11:00:31 UTC 2014


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commit 973b62b3afa9845cfa646795d314f3074e2afa41
Author: Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 10 00:28:18 2014 +0300

    Update debian/copyright to clarify the confusion around variants of the Artistic license.
---
 debian/copyright | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 666198f..757cca8 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -6,14 +6,28 @@ Source: https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Greeking
 Files: *
 Copyright: 2005-2009, Timothy Appnel <tima at cpan.org>
 License: Artistic
+ From lib/Text/Greeking.pm:
+ .
+  The software is released under the Artistic License. The
+  terms of the Artistic License are described at
+  L<http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html>.
+ .
+ Although there is a LICENSE file in the top directory as of version
+ 0.14 with the "Artistic-1.0" (in spdx.org terminology) license in it,
+ the license linked above is the one that comes with Perl itself,
+ called "Artistic-1.0-Perl" by spdx.org. It is assumed that the
+ "Artistic-1.0-Perl" license is the intended one.
+ .
+ On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the
+ Artistic License (as shipped with Perl) can be found in
+ `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'
 
 Files: debian/*
 Copyright: 2009, Jonathan Yu <jawnsy at cpan.org>
  2009, Christine Spang <christine at debian.org>
 License: Artistic
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the Artistic License, which comes with Perl.
+ On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the Artistic License
+ can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'
 
-License: Artistic
-    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-    it under the terms of the Artistic License, which comes with Perl.
-    On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the Artistic License
-    can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'

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