On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Bill Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Another good point. One could put GPL in the META.yml but have a LICENSE > > section in the POD that says "same terms as Perl itself" -- which one > wins? > > That's the very reason I want to get the license text out of the POD > and into an auto-written LICENSE file. > > Right now it's all well and good to compile statistics about license > declarations in META.yml files, but if there are separate LICENSE > sections in the POD then people (& robots) have to look at that > manually and we've really gained very little. The problem is people may add it to META.yml but not remove it from the POD. For one thing, it would be nice to be able to see what the license is when viewing the POD. Once the module is installed META.yml is no longer present, and there's no way for someone using the module to determine the license from perldoc/man. Also, some modules may include a separate LICENSE or COPYRIGHT file in the tarball.
