Hi mradot,
mradot wrote on Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:25:05PM -1000:
> I recently downloaded the cadubi port. It is a nice program but it didnt
> come with a man page, however debian GNU/linux has a man page for it. So I
> included a slightly edited version of the man page that comes with the
> debian cadubi package. I hope you will add it to the port. :)
Thanks for caring.
> It does not strictly say anywhere what lincense the man page for cadubi is
> under but since cadubi itself uses the same license as perl, I'm guessing
> the man page uses the same license as perl.
Guessing is not sufficient with respect to Copyright law.
When a license is not clearly stated, unfortunately, it isn't
a proper license and we can't use it.
> .\" created by Abel Daniel for the Debian Gnu/Linux version,
> .\" but may be used by others.
That isn't a proper license. In particular, Abel Daniel did not
allow copying, modifying, and distributing this file. Probably,
Abel Daniel didn't know better and intended to allow all that,
but we don't know for sure. Strictly speaking, your sending of
this file to this mailing list was already illegal.
By the way, the Copyright statement is missing as well, including
the Copyright year.
If you care about cadubi, please do the following, it would be
quite helpful:
1) Figure out how to contact Abel Daniel privately.
2) Send mail to him, respectfully stating that you like
his manual page and want to use it for OpenBSD,
but cannot do so because it lacks a proper Copyright
statement and a proper license.
3) Ask him to allow inclusion of both.
4) In case he doesn't know what is needed, refer him to
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=HEAD
for a good example of both.
Of course, properly citing the Perl license along with a proper
Copyright statement would be fine as well.
If you get all this done, please resend the updated file with the
proper license included such that we can commit it.
By the way, i strongly suspect this kind of incomplete Copyright
statement and license isn't acceptable by Debian standards, either.
So the following might also make sense:
5) Check whether the situation has already been resolved by Debian
developers. That might make steps 1-4 unnecessary.
6) Otherwise, after completing steps 1-4, report the result to
the Debian maintainer of cadubi as well.
Yours,
Ingo
