Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:03:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Perry <alex.perry@ieee.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: freebsd-games / larn / license Message-ID: <E1E9SRj-0005Qf-00@p2.pamurray.com>
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Dear Ports team,
I'd like to package Larn v12.{0123} for Debian -
and I'm having trouble establishing the license trail.
Looking at the "cvs/larn" subdirectory of the port tarball ...
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/markm/freebsd-games-5.1.1.tar.bz2
Before patching for FreeBSD, this appears to be upstream V12.0
and the source directory is well labelled as (c) Noah Morgan.
Several files have a BSD-with-advertising license grant,
presumably to cover the modifications made by the FreeBSD team.
I can't find anything to document the license grant from Noah.
On what basis was the software originally added into FreeBSD ?
I understand that I can't simply contact Noah directly,
since he apparently died in the late 1990s as reported here...
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.misc/browse_thread/thread/520105fb701196a1/f924dc5af5cf600d?lnk=st&q=%22noah+morgan%22+death&rnum=1#
I'd appreciate it if you could send me a copy of any license
backup you might have. Yours,
Alex Perry.
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