Whence cdecl?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Alan M. Evans wrote:
> I couldn't find cdecl with yum. I'll admit that my search was minimal,
> but it would surprise me if it wasn't in any package obtainable with
> yum. What package do I need?
> 
> I'm using FC6, if that makes any difference.

cdecl was removed because the copyright status was uncertain.  The 
original release was an ancient posting on Usenet which didn't contain 
any copyright or license information in the way that we currently 
understand them.

I tried to contact the original authors, and indeed got quite far along 
and got permissions from several, but unfortunately a key original 
author could not be contacted.  If you want I can go back over my notes 
and dig out the names again.

Failing permission, we would have to either rewrite it (almost 
completely) or find some other way to work around it (eg. perhaps the 
lack of copyright notice & registration meant that it wasn't covered by 
(C) since it may have been released before the US signed up to that part 
of the Berne Convention -- but we'd need to check and be very sure).

Rich.

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