Good day- I am not a member of this list so please respond to me directly. I am a fledgling package main- tainer and understand that legal questions should be brought to this list.
I have taken on a small package for my first project and have run into a licensing problem: The package, metrics, contains a collection of small programs. One program was released by it's author under the GPL, one group of programs was released into the public domain. Two programs, lc and ccount, however, have no supporting license or copyright documentation. In the case of ccount, the original author's email address (10 years old) is available and I will attempt to contact--but do not expect much success. Without evidence of any license for these programs, I think I must assume that any use is contrary to the authors' interests and that including these programs in the package makes it non-free. Please advise. Regards, -=greg
