Bug#589816: dh-make-perl: does not recognize Artistic 2.0

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Ansgar

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:26:22PM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Package: dh-make-perl
> Version: 0.68-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> dh-make-perl does not recognize the license statement inserted by
> Dist::Zilla for the Artistic-2.0 license.  Instead it thinks the license
> used is the old Artistic license as used by perl.
> 
> Example: MooseX-FollowPBP-0.04 from CPAN.  The following statement can
> be found in lib/MooseX/FollowPBP.pm:
> 
>   This software is Copyright (c) 2010 by Dave Rolsky.
> 
>   This is free software, licensed under:
> 
>     The Artistic License 2.0
> 
> META.(json|yml) also include "artistic_2" in the "license" field.

I have one though about it: According to Policy 12.5 Copyright
information every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its
copyright information and distribution license, or if it is one of the
ones in common-licenses refering for a full text there.

Ok, now Apache 2.0 is not in common-licenses and will in next time not
be therein, see http://bugs.debian.org/458385

Thus one idea: How about nevertheless trying to regognize this
correctly, even Artistic-2.0 is not in common-licenses, adding a
'License: Artistic-2.0' in the stanza, but instead of adding then a
short refering to the short form, and linking to /usr/share/common-
licenses, put a Note that verbatim copy has to be added?

Bests
Salvatore
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