Debian Bug report logs - #717430
libossp-uuid-perl: Long description wrongly calls Data::UUID not DFSG-free

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From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: libossp-uuid-perl: Long description wrongly calls Data::UUID not DFSG-free

Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:01:38 +0200

Package: libossp-uuid-perl
Version: 1.6.2-1.3
Severity: minor

Long description of libossp-uuid-perl contains the following:

> The Debian package provides also Data::UUID interface so OSSP::uuid
> can be used as free replacement for non-DFSG Perl module.

Data::UUID is licensed with (a derivation of) the DFSG-free NTP license.

The text does not exist in upstream project description or POD files.

Seemingly it originates from the time when the package was created, as
its ITP (bug#283493) contains the following:

> The Data::UUID module is not free software (no license file)

That ITP was filed in 2004, and indeed Data::UUID changelog includes
 this interesting entry:

> 1.149 Sat Nov  1 12:31 2008
>  - added explicit BSD license; code is basically RFC4122 + patches

So apparently that text in long description of libossp-uuid-perl has
been wrong since more than 4 years: Please drop that paragraph.


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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