Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:18:55 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Alex Perry <alex.perry@ieee.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd-games / larn / license Message-ID: <4312A8CF.2040806@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <E1E9SRj-0005Qf-00@p2.pamurray.com> References: <E1E9SRj-0005Qf-00@p2.pamurray.com>
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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
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