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From:
Ken Williams
Date:
October 30, 2008 13:51
Subject:
Re: Integrating license related things of CPAN
Message ID:
6a7ee8cc0810301351qb7822c4rc7026c27d5f26bd3@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:53 AM, David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:13:24PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:

>
>> I agree that the second point is a problem.  I'd like to solve it by
>> delegating to Software::License.  Anything it knows about should be a
>> valid choice.
>
> All that does it make it Someone Elses Problem while still not solving
> the problem.  As an example, Software::License doesn't appear to know
> about the Microsoft or Python licences.

Don't underestimate the power of making it someone else's problem
though.  By far the biggest gripe with M::B's implementation of the
license stuff is that it's in M::B.  Decoupling them would be good.

> PS - sorry you're getting this twice Ken.  It's because you CCed me on
> your post to the mailing list, so the copy sent directly to me arrived
> first, so the copy from the list got thrown away.  And it's the copy I
> get from the list which goes through a procmail recipe to insert a
> Reply-To header.  Please don't CC me on mailing list messages in the
> future.

I'll try to remember but I'll probably forget after this thread.

 -Ken

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