On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 11:17 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 11:13 AM Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Could you please help me to find the correct license for file perlunicook.pod[1]?
> It is part of 'perl-doc'.
>
> The license text is:
>
> Copyright © 2012 Tom Christiansen.
>
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
> under the same terms as Perl itself.
>
> Most of these examples taken from the current edition of the “Camel Book”;
> that is, from the 4ᵗʰ Edition of I<Programming Perl>, Copyright © 2012 Tom
> Christiansen <et al.>, 2012-02-13 by O’Reilly Media. The code itself is
> freely redistributable, and you are encouraged to transplant, fold,
> spindle, and mutilate any of the examples in this manpage however you please
> for inclusion into your own programs without any encumbrance whatsoever.
> Acknowledgement via code comment is polite but not required.
>
>
> The first part is license 'GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl'. I am not
> sure about the second part.
> the original license was '(GPL+ or Artistic) and Public Domain'.
>
The current SPDX notation for this package should be:
GPL-1.0-or-later or Artistic-1.0-Perl and LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain
Not under our current convention, which is to allow
'LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain' for public domain dedication
language that is merged into the
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/blob/main/public-do...
file. We haven't exactly documented this but we are assuming that
anything that would be covered by LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain
would have to actually use the magic words "public domain", which I
think was the approach under the Callaway "Public Domain" convention.
Rather, this license would probably be appropriate for the other new
umbrella LicenseRef, LicenseRef-Fedora-UltraPermissive, which we see
as sort of the successor to Callaway "Freely redistributable without
restriction". Jitka, please submit an issue or merge request for
inclusion of the text in
<
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/blob/main/UltraPerm...;.
As an aside, I think it is somewhat unfortunate that we will probably
not end up submitting this license to SPDX for inclusion in the SPDX
license list. :-)
Richard