[tex-live] TL13: biblatex-biber using perl(Data::Diver) without license information

Dr. Werner Fink werner at suse.de
Tue Jul 16 10:37:00 CEST 2013


On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 06:50:11PM -0700, Tye McQueen wrote:
> I'll try to release a new dist this weekend.
> 
> Tye

Hi Tye,

I'd like to ask about this new dist as a search on cpan.org/ currently
returns http://search.cpan.org/~tyemq/Data-Diver-1.0101/Diver.pm which
is Data-Diver-1.0101 from 2005 without any Copyright/Copyleft notice.

Werner

> On Jul 3, 2013 3:48 AM, "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 10:05:30AM +0000, Lars Madsen wrote:
> > > The Data::Diver author seem to be active, so perhaps you should write
> > > directly to him (perhaps someone forgot to tell him about the bug in the
> > bugtracker)
> > >
> > > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=22609
> > >
> > > Though, I have no idea how to contact this guy.
> >
> > Just found <tyemq at cpan.org> at http://search.cpan.org/~tyemq/ but I've no
> > idea if this will work. Neverthless I've added his cpan address to carbon
> > copy.  Hopefully we will reach Tye ...
> >
> > > From: tex-live [tex-live-bounces at tug.org]
> > > Sent: 03 July 2013 11:53
> > > To: tex-live at tug.org
> > > Cc: Philip Kime
> > > Subject: [tex-live] TL13: biblatex-biber using perl(Data::Diver) without
> > license information
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > just to show this
> > >
> > >   https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=82815
> > >
> > > that is that this makes it impossible for me to include biblatex-biber
> > > within TeXLive 2013 due legal problems (as I've been told).
> > > And this is regardless if I would use the dumped binaries or just
> > > pack the upstream version of biblatex-biber ... it is frustrating :(
> > >

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