* Artur Frenszek-Iwicki: > Hi all, > > I wanted to package the "cdecl" [0] program for Fedora. > The upstream repository [1] does not contain any license file, > instead describing the licensing situation as follows: > >> You may well be wondering what the status of cdecl is. So am I. It was >> twice posted to comp.sources.unix, but neither edition carried any mention >> of copyright. This version is derived from the second edition. I have >> no reason to believe there are any limitations on its use, and strongly >> believe it to be in the Public Domain. > > Looking at other distributions, the program is available in Debian, > with the package's license tag saying simply "Public Domain". > Meanwhile, openSUSE uses a different fork [2] with some extra features, > which has been relicensed to GPLv3. The Google Groups Usenet archive suggests that the posting date was May 1988: <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sources.unix/c/yzWbI4agBE0/m/ddqzmuiEidwJ> (As far as I understand it, dates are relevant in this case.) Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
