r59175 - /website/copyright.pod
dmn at users.alioth.debian.org
dmn at users.alioth.debian.org
Fri Jun 11 11:40:17 UTC 2010
Author: dmn
Date: Fri Jun 11 11:40:08 2010
New Revision: 59175
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/?sc=1&rev=59175
Log:
missing info: convert to plain POD
HTML seems to give us nothing here
Modified:
website/copyright.pod
Modified: website/copyright.pod
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/website/copyright.pod?rev=59175&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- website/copyright.pod (original)
+++ website/copyright.pod Fri Jun 11 11:40:08 2010
@@ -1382,74 +1382,73 @@
=head2 CPAN Request Tracker
-=begin html
-
Hi:
-<p>While packaging your module for Debian, I noticed that it doesn't seem
-to mention [<b>copyright information, or license information, or both</b>].
-</p><p>Copyright/license information is needed in order for us (and others)
+While packaging your module for Debian, I noticed that it doesn't seem
+to mention [B<copyright information, or license information, or both>].
+
+Copyright/license information is needed in order for us (and others)
to be able to legally distribute the software. Could you please give us
(replying to this bug report is fine): years of
copyright, copyright holders' names, copyright holders' e-mail addresses
-(if appropriate).</p>
-<p>This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my
+(if appropriate).
+
+This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my
understanding that both copyright and licensing information is vital
for the continued success of open source software. Copyright is what
allows you to assert a license, and a license is what gives others the rights
to use and re-distribute your software.
A great article discussing some of this is "What is Copyleft?" by
Richard Stallman: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
-</p><p>Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for
+
+
+Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for
the noise, as I understand that the last thing most authors want to
deal with is legal administrivia like this. I do hope, however, that
you could (in your continued generosity) help us with this request.
Please also consider adding these statements to your code/package
README, since we must distribute some evidence of copyright information
if it is not in the source package itself.
-</p>
+
Cheers,
-
-[<b>Your Name</b>]
-On behalf of the Debian Perl Team
-
-=end html
+
+[B<Your Name>]
+ On behalf of the Debian Perl Team
=head2 E-mail
-=begin html
-
Hi:
-<p>While packaging your module, [<b>Foo::Bar</b>], for Debian, I noticed that
-it doesn't seem to mention [<b>copyright information, or license
-information, or both</b>].
-</p><p>Copyright/license information in order for us (and others)
+While packaging your module, [B<Foo::Bar>], for Debian, I noticed that
+it doesn't seem to mention [B<copyright information, or license
+information, or both>].
+
+Copyright/license information in order for us (and others)
to be able to legally distribute the software. Could you please give us
(replying to this email is fine): years of
copyright, copyright holders' names, copyright holders' e-mail addresses
-(if appropriate).</p>
-<p>This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my
+(if appropriate).
+
+This is more than just a Debian issue. I'm not a lawyer, but it's my
understanding that both copyright and licensing information is vital
for the continued success of open source software. Copyright is what
allows you to assert a license, and a license is what gives others the rights
to use and re-distribute your software.
A great article discussing some of this is "What is Copyleft?" by
Richard Stallman: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
-</p><p>Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for
+
+Thanks for releasing your work to the CPAN. I apologize in advance for
the noise, as I understand that the last thing most authors want to
deal with is legal administrivia like this. I do hope, however, that
you could (in your continued generosity) help us with this request.
Please also consider adding these statements to your code/package
README, since we must distribute some evidence of copyright information
if it is not in the source package itself.
-</p>
+
Cheers,
-
-[<b>Your Name</b>]
-On behalf of the Debian Perl Team
-
-=end html
+
+[B<Your Name>]
+ On behalf of the Debian Perl Team
=head1 CONTRIBUTORS
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