On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:33:07 +0200, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gábor Szabó wrote: > > What do you think about adding a has_license kwalitee to CPANTS ? > > Checking if the META.yml has that entry ? > > This will penalise all the modules that use ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which, > last time I looked, does not generate the license metadata, even though > the module may clearly state the license used in the documentation. Modules that use(d) EU::MM will/should have a /^=head\d\s+(li[cs]en[cs]e|copyrights?)\b/i section in /^(readme|license)(\.txt)?$/i and/or This::Module.pm =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE In above pattern I allowed swapping the c and s because I've seen that too often to ignore. Probably by non-native English speakers > I made a half-hearted attempt at patching EU::MM to provide a LICENSE > key to WriteMakefile but then Real Life intervened. It did help me get > an appreciation of what a thankless job the maintenance of EU::MM is, > though. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], perl-qa@perl.org
