I am the original author of the manual page in question. I am presently negotiating with CMP, who acquired the Perl Journal a few years ago, to obtain complete and unambiguous copyright on the article. If I succeed, I will release the original article and 'perlreftut', the derived manpage, under the GNU FDL or whatever other license the Debian maintainers think appropriate.
Even if I don't succeed in this, I will try to negotiate a less restrictive license. Can I suggest that if something like this comes up in the future, you try contacting the original author for assistance? I would have done something sooner, but the problem was brought to my attention only this afternoon. Mark-Jason Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
