Bug 445

Summary:	Review request: perl-Date-Leapyear - Is a particular year a leap year?
Product:	Package Reviews	Reporter:	Xavier Bachelot <xavier>
Component:	Review Request	Assignee:	RPM Fusion Package Review <rpmfusion-package-review>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	hobbes1069, paul, rc040203, rpmfusion-package-review
Priority:	P5
Version:	Current
Hardware:	All
OS:	GNU/Linux
namespace:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	446

Description Xavier Bachelot 2009-03-17 17:56:17 CET

Spec URL: http://www.bachelot.org/fedora/SPECS/perl-Date-Leapyear.spec
SRPM URL: http://www.bachelot.org/fedora/SRPMS/perl-Date-Leapyear-1.71-1.fc10.src.rpm

Description: 
Date::Leapyear exports one function - isleap - which returns 1 or 0 if a
year is leap, or not, respectively.

License is Artistic 1.0, which is non-free according to Fedora.

rpmlint :
perl-Date-Leapyear.src: W: invalid-license Artistic
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 1 warnings.
--> The reason why it's not in Fedora.

This is my first package for RPM Fusion, but I'm already sponsored in Fedora.

Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2009-03-17 18:17:59 CET

Have you tried contacting the upstream developer to see if they'll consider re-licensing or dual licensing under a free license? This approach worked for Tie::EncryptedHash - see http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=28813

Comment 2 rc040203 2009-03-17 18:43:41 CET

FWIW: Even debian has it
http://packages.qa.debian.org/libd/libdate-leapyear-perl.html

Comment 3 Xavier Bachelot 2009-03-17 20:46:07 CET

I should have contacted upstream, indeed. I thought about doing that, but discarded the idea as the module didn't had a release since 2002. Anyway, I sent a mail after you pushed me and had a positive answer within minutes. I just have to wait for a new release now and the 2 review requests will probably be moving to Fedora soon.

Comment 4 rc040203 2009-03-18 04:23:00 CET

(In reply to comment #3)
> I should have contacted upstream, indeed. I thought about doing that, but
> discarded the idea as the module didn't had a release since 2002. Anyway, I
> sent a mail after you pushed me and had a positive answer within minutes. I
> just have to wait for a new release now and the 2 review requests will probably
> be moving to Fedora soon.

My recommendation: Include a copy of upstream's email into your package and resubmit the package to Fedora, now.

Comment 5 Xavier Bachelot 2009-03-18 12:54:32 CET

Submitted to Fedora :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490865

Comment 6 Xavier Bachelot 2009-03-20 12:32:39 CET

Package was reviewed and accepted in Fedora.