Multiple licenses

[ronww]

Version 2 of the CPAN Meta Spec specifies the license fields as a list and includes an example with more than 1 license. Currently, this module only allows 1 license.

[Leont]

The current paradigm is to detect that from the main source file. I don't know how workable that is with multiple licenses. This needs more investigation.

[ronww]

Looks like Software::LicenseUtils won't support that.

Maybe have a --license option to override the detected license?

[Leont]

Looks like Software::LicenseUtils won't support that.

Probably could be done, but corner cases may be tricky.

Maybe have a --license option to override the detected license?

Probably something using the metamerge file is better.

[ronww]

Probably something using the metamerge file is better.

If so, then please move the check for a missing license to after the merge.

Also, please change:

croak "Couldn't parse license from $license_section: @guess"

to a "carp" rather than a "croak".

Thanks

[ronww]

I see that get_license was factored out from get_meta, but any problems getting the license from the .pm file still result in "croak" before metamerge is done.

[Leont]

It seems there is no easy way to merge licenses in Software::License either, that is a further problem. Consider this stalled until that is made possible.