From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 06:18:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43B516A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:18:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71FE443D45 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:18:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D771F5D08; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:18:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00996-05; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:18:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-79-217.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.79.217]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9105CB6; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:18:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4312A8CF.2040806@mac.com> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:18:55 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050801 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Perry References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd-games / larn / license X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:18:43 -0000 Alex Perry wrote: > Dear Ports team, Howdy-- > I'd like to package Larn v12.{0123} for Debian - > and I'm having trouble establishing the license trail. Larn may predate people explicitly putting the code they publicly release under a specific license. Most of the files contain nothing more than a one-line statement of copyright to Noah Morgan. > 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 ? Larn was imported circa 1994 with this commit message: "Bring in the 4.4 Lite games directory, modulo man page changes and segregation of the x11 based games. I'm not going to tag the originals with bsd_44_lite and do this in two stages since it's just not worth it for this collection, and I've got directory renames to deal with that way. Bleah. Submitted by: jkh" ...and the earliest version of the larn.6 manpage contains a 4-clause BSD license dated from 1990 (which may be boilerplate), followed by: ".\" @(#)larn.6 5.5 (Berkeley) 12/30/93" If you want to dig deeper, consult: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/games/larn/Attic/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/games/larn/Attic/larn.6?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/games/larn/Attic/README?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain You might try looking for a James D. McNamara, as well. -- -Chuck