Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I was under the impression that the Perl 6 modules in the archive were
>> being packaged independently like the Perl 5 modules, since I think
>> I've seen several of them already.  I didn't realize that you had a
>> monolithic package that you were going to break up.

> What you've likely seen is the Perl 5 modules that emulate parts of Perl 6
> syntax. Those are all named "Perl6::something".

Aha!

Okay, in that case, I think I've changed my mind and we should go ahead
and include Artistic 2.0 in the common-licenses directory, although I'd
welcome comments from other debian-policy readers.

> Indeed, we got legal counsel on the question before we even started to
> revise the license. The legal steps are squared away. There is still a
> community process for the update, because that's the way Perl
> development works.

Okay, I won't worry about it then.  It's good news for the whole
community, to be sure, since the new license is much better!

Thanks for your patience with correcting my misunderstandings.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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