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IPv4 and IPv6 validation methods
https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Validate-IP/
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Possibly outdated LICENSE file? Artistic-1.0 vs Artistic-1.0-Perl #14

Open swt2c opened 2 months ago

swt2c commented 2 months ago

The LICENSE file says:

"This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

Terms of the Perl programming language system itself

a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or b) the "Artistic License""

It then provides the content of the "Artistic License" but the content doesn't match that of the current Perl 5 "Artistic License": https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/Artistic

It seems like the LICENSE file may need to be updated to match Perl's, assuming that is the intended license?

autarch commented 2 months ago

I think the difference is just the formatting of the license. When there's a future release of this package, the license file will be regenerated and the formatting will be updated.

swt2c commented 2 months ago

I don't think it's just formatting. The Artistic-1.0-Perl license has 10 clauses, whereas the one in Data-Validate-IP, which I believe is Artistic-1.0, has only 9, for example.

Is the intended license Artistic-1.0-Perl?

richardfontana commented 2 months ago

BTW "outdated" isn't quite the right term. Artistic-1.0-Perl is the older version of the license. No one quite knows how Artistic-1.0 came to be, but in my research I have never been able to find any release of Perl that used that license, so it seems to have been introduced by the OSI, perhaps when it first set up the OSI website in the late 1990s.

autarch commented 2 months ago

Yeah, I think this is just an older version of the license. It looks like there was an update to the text in a 2023 Software::License release. Like I said, it'll be updated if there's a future release. But as it stands, I don't think this will cause any issues.

swt2c commented 2 months ago

Sorry to be persistent on this (not worried too much about an update to the license file), but can you please just confirm that this is your intended license for Artistic: https://spdx.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0-Perl.html

autarch commented 2 months ago

Yes, that's the intended license.