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I'm about to release another beta of the PathTools distribution, with the following copyright chunk in each .pm file: =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2004 by the Perl 5 Porters. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut For the Cwd.pm file, I'm also adding this paragraph: Portions of the C code in this library are copyright (c) 1994 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please see the source code in F<Cwd.xs> for the licensing details of that code. In other words, whatever copyright I can claim on this code I'm ceding to p5p, and there's some portion of the code that looks like Berkeley owns it. Please do let me know if I need to change something before the non-beta release. -Ken On Nov 29, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Ken Williams wrote: > Hi, > > Currently the Cwd module[1] has no copyright/license statement in it, > and I'm not sure it ever has. Since it's always been a core module, > with no independent CPAN life until I gave it one, I think the > intention was for it to be licensed under the same terms as perl > itself. > > However, there's XS code in there that comes from OpenBSD 2.9, put > there by Jarkko, and which bears the standard commenting about > "Copyright (c) 1994 The Regents of the University of California, all > rights reserved, blah blah blah." > > So, is this a problem? And what *is* the license for this? And if > it's not "the same as perl itself", then how can we include it in the > core? > > This issue was brought to my attention by Radosław Zieliński, who > would like to create an RPM package for the PLD Linux distribution, > and wants to know what to put in the License field. > > -Ken > > [1] http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/PathTools-3.01_02/ >Thread Previous | Thread Next