I want to program a little GUI tool to upload (and resize) my photos into Flickr, and I found Flickr::API very easy to use.
Unfortunately it’s not packaged for Fedora, and before I could realize what was happening, I was packaging Perl modules. But then I’ve found a little problem that may explain why Flickr::API isn’t packaged yet.
Flickr::API has one unpackaged dependency: XML::Parser::Lite::Tree. It’s very simple to package (my first Perl RPM ever!), but its license is just Perl Artistic License
, that it’s in the bad licenses list for Fedora project.
This is very disappointing. Instead of hacking, I’m packaging Perl modules and writing to the authors to ask if they would be so kind to change the license and then I could try to submit the package to be included in Fedora.
I hope Cal Henderson (XML::Parser::Lite::Tree author) agrees, and later I’ll ask to the Flickr::API authors to do the same, or I’ll have to look for another Perl module.
The license change it’s so easy: they only have to agree to use an alternate valid license (e.g. the GPL), and then their software would be easily accessible to all the people using Fedora.
It’s a nice benefit for a little licensing change, isn’t it?
Update: Sometimes I’m a little absentminded, because I didn’t noticed Cal Henderson it’s also the author of the cool Flickr::API module. He has replied my email and the modules are now under Artistic License 2.0, that it’s OK for Fedora. Thank you very much Cal for your software!
