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Perl Leftovers: LPW 2025, Perl License, and More
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The Weekly Challenge ☛ 2025-12-01 [Older] LPW 2025 - Event Report
The day started with a hiccup—our local train station was closed for some reason, so bus services were provided instead. We took the bus to the next station and, luckily, caught a direct train to the venue near Great Portland Street. From the station, it was just a two-minute walk. As we entered, I spotted Julien Fiegehenn, Dave Lambley, and Arne Sommer. It was also good to see JJ Atria (one of the organisers) at the entrance. I hadn’t seen him in years. After a quick chat, I headed up to the main room, where I met John Davies, who gave us our name badges. I arrived just in time for the first talk. In the main room, I met Paul Evans, Sawyer X, Andrew Mehta (another organiser), Lee Johnson, Jess Robinson, James Raspass, Boyd Duffee, Martin Brooks and Theo van Hoesel.
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Perl ☛ 2025-12-01 [Older] ANNOUNCE: Various updated wikis, including Perl.Wiki
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Perl ☛ 2025-11-28 [Older] GitHub and the Perl License
When we publish our Perl module repository on GitHub, we might notice something peculiar in the "About" section of our repository: GitHub doesn't recognize the Perl 5 license. This can be a bit confusing, especially when we've explicitly stated the licensing in our LICENSE file.
Without properly defined license, GitHub ranks the quality of a repository lower. This is also unfortunate because it limits the "searchability" of our repository. GitHub cannot index it according to the license and users cannot search by license. This is today more important than ever before as many enterprises rule out open source projects purely on the grounds that their license is poorly managed.
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Perl ☛ 2025-11-25 [Older] This week in PSC (208) | 2025-11-25