* David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> [2009-10-11T21:49:28]
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Ricardo Signes
> <perl.cpanw...@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
> > I am also happy to add a meta2_name method to all the Software::License
> > classes to avoid a direct connection between SL and META, but I don't want
> > to keep using the unsatisfactory list from the current spec.
>
> I didn't realize they were ambiguous. What I really would prefer is
> to go the other way.
>
> my $obj = Software::License->new('artistic_2');
> my $obj = Software::License->new(''bsd');
I'm happy to have a list of simple names that map to unambiguous licenses, and
I'll make sure Software::License plays nice.
We'll need to make sure that anything currently ambiguous is not changed in
meaning. That is, we don't want to worry about interpreting the meaning of a
license field based on the metafile version if possible.
--
rjbs
