* On Thu, Oct 23 2008, Bill Ward wrote: > Perhaps when you upload to PAUSE without a license in META.yml it > could actually replace the META.yml with one that has a license, based > in input from an HTML form? Would that be too weird? I think it's > technically feasible.
So if the user doesn't provide information, PAUSE should just make it up? That doesn't sound very valuable. Now someone reading the license field will have to wonder whether they are looking at the real license or just the license that was randomly selected by PAUSE. This negates the entire usefulness of the field. Also, altering the contents of a distribution will break the signature generated by Module::Signature. Some other thoughts... is the license specified in the META.yml legally binding in any way? If not, anyone using the module will have to look at the rest of the distribution to determine its license, again negating the usefulness of this field. Then again, I, as the author, don't really know what license my distributions are distributed under. I could pick one, but can I really be sure that it applies? If I use Term::ReadLine and it picks the Term::ReadLine::Gnu, is my module GPL now? I don't know and I don't care. Does anyone else? Regards, Jonathan Rockway -- print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"
