Re: License of module "Perl" seems wrong

[Reuben Thomas]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 14:05, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:

Hi Reuben,

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> The perl module has a GPL license, but its only file, m4/perl.m4, has an
> "unlimited" license.

The license of a module, in the module description, cannot be "wrong" since
that's the authoritative location where the license is noted.

Thanks for fixing this!

In this case, it doesn't make sense to me that a module whose module file is trivial and whose only contents is a file with an "unlimited" license doesn't have the same license. In general, I'd expect modules to have something like the strictest license of any of their dependencies.