* 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:
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https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sources.unix/c/yzWbI4agBE0/m/ddqzmuiEidw...
(As far as I understand it, dates are relevant in this case.)
Thanks,
Florian