Bug#497694: libaudio-cd-perl: problematic license

Gunnar Wolf gwolf at gwolf.org
Fri Sep 12 05:02:43 UTC 2008


Damyan Ivanov dijo [Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:56:23PM +0300]:
> > I've done two things now:
> > * contacted the author of disc-cover (Audio::CD 0.05 is downloaded
> >   from the disc-cover homepage) and asked him for help
> > * installed 0.04 on my machine and tested yaret and disc-cover --
> >   both seem to work, so we could upload a 1:0.04-1 package (if the
> 
> Hm. I have a strange feeling of inreversibility about epochs :) Can it 
> be 0.05+really0.04 instead? Only if you consider this less ugly than 
> an epoch :)

Umh... That would only do if the disc-cover version of Audio::CD is
not enhanced somehow since 0.04, just copied over. If it has any
additional functionality (and specially as Gregor says he has some
yet-undisclosed helpful reply in this front ;-) ), I'd vote against
0.05+really0.04pluspatches or something like that!

> >   author's statement in a private mail is "good enough" for us)
> 
> I guess it is. The mail would have to be quoted (Recieved headers 
> included) in debian/copyright.

Extra points if it is a GPG-signed mail. But OTOH, nothing in his
distribution so far has been GPG-signed.

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