When DateTime::Cron::Simple was originally uploaded to the CPAN, it contained a copyright assertion, but no license of any kind was provided with it.
Following an enquiry from the Venezuelan Patents and Intellectual Property Office on it's licensing status, and conversations with the author, the module is being deleted from the CPAN as per the author's demands.
At least one major Perl product (WebGUI) is known to use this module, and so I'd like to make a request for volunteers to write an API-compatible replacement to allow for continuity of service.
Any interested parties should contact the DateTime mailing list to co-ordinate, and permissions to the namespace will be reassigned as needed.
And as a bonus....
speters on 2006-09-29T12:02:37
Please write some tests for the module as well
:). Actually, the best test writers for this "new" module would be the current users.
I am a volunteer
ferreira on 2006-09-29T12:07:25
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.datetime/6442
You can use this
harleypig on 2006-09-29T15:13:04
I wrote something to parse a cron line some time ago, you're welcome to use whatever you need from it. If you need this disclaimer then "I release this code into the public domain."
http://blog.harleypig.com/ParseCron.pm
TorgoX!
clscott on 2006-09-29T18:01:31
Sean M. Burke has a great tool with excellent cron parsing capabilities:
http://interglacial.com/user/sburke/pub/crontab2english.htmland the code's licence is the same as Perl itself.
So use the cron parsing code as required...
Available module for test and consideration
bureado on 2006-09-29T19:55:20
As I stated in the DateTime mailing list, a brief rewrite of the module is available at
http://perl.bureado.com.ve/DateTime-Cron-Parser-0.1.tar.gz.
