Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: Sort-Fields Source: https://metacpan.org/release/Sort-Fields Upstream-Contact: Joseph N. Hall Files: * Copyright: The upstream author is Joseph N. Hall, joseph@5sigma.com, who has placed this software into the public domain: License: public-domain Comment: Version 1.001 adds the following statement: The Sort::Fields module is licensed under the same terms as perl itself, under the Artistic License 2.0. . which is not correct (Perl is licensed under Artistic or GPL-1+), and can't override the original author's (non-)license. Files: debian/* Copyright: (C) 2008, Dominic Hargreaves License: GPL-2 License: public-domain Message-ID: <144b6a750803231337p346b372ep6c7fbd0bd2959c09@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:37:21 -0700 From: Joseph To: "Dominic Hargreaves" Subject: Re: Sort::Fields licence Cc: jnh@cpan.org In-Reply-To: <20080323184608.GV6059@urchin.earth.li> References: <20080323184608.GV6059@urchin.earth.li> . I'm not interested in uploading a new version with a proper copyright statement right now. Therefore considering the age of the code and so on: . I hereby declare Sort::Fields to be in the public domain. . Hope that helps. Feel free to publish this statement where necessary. . -joseph . On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in packaging Sort::Fields for Debian, but since there is > no copyright statement or licence attached to the code, I'm unable to do > this at present. Could you possibly add one which is DFSG-compliant[1] > (of course the "Perl licence" is generally used for CPAN modules) License: GPL-2 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2. . On Debian systems, the complete text of version 1 of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.