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Hi:
Your module says-
Copyright 2009 Christian Augustin, all rights reserved.
This implies that you wrote all of the code contained in the module.
However, this statement would seem to indicate otherwise:
Kudos to ITO Nobuaki <banb@cpan.org> for his UUID::Generator::PurePerl
module! My work is based on his code, and without it I would've been
lost with all those incomprehensible RFC texts and C codes ...
If your code is based on someone else's module, then it's rightly
copyrighted to both of you, rather than just you (unless the author of
UUID::Generator::PurePerl gave you explicit written permission otherwise).
As that module is licensed under "same terms as Perl" -- that being, GPL
1+ or Artistic -- rather than public domain, I don't think you can
assume copyright of all the work yourself (unless you are saying your
code was simply /inspired by/ UUID::Generator::PurePerl, and no code was
actually derived from it).
I await your response, as I think it's important to clear this up before
we update to 1.0202 for Debian.
Cheers,
Jonathan