Re: "Perl" license

[Jens Rehsack <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost>]

Greg Troxel wrote:
> artistic and artistic-2.0 are already in licenses/
> 
> and perl is tagged as gnu-gpl-v2, which is probably because it is listed
> as being distributable under either GPL2 or Artistics, but I've never
> paid enough attention to understand.
> 
> So we might want to a PERL_LICENSE variable someplace, and set
> LICENSE=${PERL_LICENSE} in packages that say "the same as perl", since
> presumably as perl changes their terms will change as well.

That's a good idea. lang/perl5/modules.mk would be a good place for that, I
think.

I no one disagrees, I'd like to do it that way this weekend and update p5-*
packages over time.

Jens