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"Ken Williams" <ken@mathforum.org> wrote: :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? The license is out of date: clause 3 should be excised. See for example ext/File/Glob/bsd_glob.c for an up to date version. When distributed as a a part of the core, the BSD license continues to apply to that specific file, but since all (remaining) license terms are less restrictive than the AL and/or GPL it is fine to say that you can distribute perl as a whole under AL/GPL. I'm not sure what the implies for Cwd as a standalone CPAN module, but I'd guess the same implies. You should probably mention in the README that parts of the code are copyright the Regents of the University of California. My reading is based on three threads from 1998/9, of which these are some apposite references: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-11/msg00713.html http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-03/msg00525.html http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-10/msg00693.html ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change HugoThread Previous | Thread Next