[Buildroot] [PATCH 17/17] perl-termreadkey: new package

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, Christopher, All,

On 2018-08-13 23:57 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Adding Yann and Arnout, licensing question below.
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:27:49 -0700, Christopher McCrory wrote:
> > +PERL_TERMREADKEY_VERSION = 2.37
> > +PERL_TERMREADKEY_SOURCE = TermReadKey-$(PERL_TERMREADKEY_VERSION).tar.gz
> > +PERL_TERMREADKEY_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/J/JS/JSTOWE
> > +PERL_TERMREADKEY_LICENSE = Artistic or GPL-1.0+
> 
> This is not correct I believe.

IANAL...

Indeed it's not.

> The README file says this:
> 
> """
>  Term::ReadKey 2.36 - Change terminal modes, and perform non-blocking reads.
> 
>  Copyright (C) 1994-1999 Kenneth Albanowski.
>                2001-2016 Jonathan Stowe and others
> 
> This package is dual licensed.  You can either choose to license it under
> the original terms which were:
> 
>  Unlimited distribution and/or modification is allowed as long as this
>  copyright notice remains intact.
> 
> Or the standard Perl terms:
> 
>   This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>   under the terms of the Artistic License. For details, see the full
>   text of the license in the file "Artistic" that should have been provided
>   with the version of perl you are using.
> 
>   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
>   without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability
>   or fitness for a particular purpose.
> """
> 
> So it is not under "Artistic or GPL-1.0+", but it is under "Artistic or
> <some funky license>".
> 
> According to
> http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.22/perl/lib/Term/ReadKey.html,
> the small "Unlimited distribution..." license was the only license of
> this Perl module up to version 2.31, at which point the Artistic
> license was added as an option.
> 
> I don't know how to SPDX-encode this weird license. Perhaps we should
> simply not care, and say the license is just "Artistic" ? Yann ?
> Arnout ?

According to the SPDX FAQ [0]:

  * How does one handle [...] licenses not found in the SPDX License
    List?

    [...] one can add the license text to the SPDX file and define a new
    license label. That license identifier is defined only for that
    specific SPDX document. This is explained in Section 6 of the SPDX
    Specification or see [1].

However, we do not have our own SPDX document in Buildroot, so section 6
does not apply.

However, we already have similar situations, where we simply state
something like:

    FOO_LICENSE = Foo license

So, I would state something similar here:

    PERL_TERMREADKEY_LICENSE = Term::ReadKey license or Artistic-1.0-Perl

Please double-check which versiopn of the Artistic license this is
refering to (i.e. the docs says "see the full text of the license in the
file "Artistic" that should have been provided with the version of perl
you are using.", so I just used Artistic-1.0-Perl but I'm not sure...)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

[0] https://spdx.org/frequently-asked-questions-faq-0
[1] https://spdx.org/spdx-specification-21-web-version#h.1v1yuxt

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