Re: man-pages-6.14 released

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

On 2025-05-09 14:28:23 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 02:14:54PM +0200, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
> > Hi Alejandro,
> > 
> > > > I wonder about the legal status of such a change.
> > > > There is ownership of the pages, and a license that allows
> > > > others to do certain things.
> > > 
> > > I also wonder about it.  We discussed it for several (~3) months, and I
> > > documented links to the discussion in the commit message:
> > > 
> > > commit 9f2986c34166085225bb5606ebfd4952054e1657
> > > Author: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Fri Apr 11 02:19:48 2025 +0200
> > > 
> > >     *, CREDITS: Unify copyright notices
> > >     
> > >     Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/jpin2dbnp5vpitnh7l4qmvkamzq3h3xljzsznrudgioox3nn72@57uybxbe3h4p/T/#u>
> > >     Link: <https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects>
> > 
> > So I read this last link, and see
> > 
> > "Don’t change someone else’s copyright notice without their permission
> > You should not change or remove someone else’s copyright notice unless
> > they have expressly (in writing) permitted you to do so. This includes
> > third parties’ notices in pre-existing code."
> 
> I understood that paragraph as not changing copyright notices from
> people unrelated to the project.

I don't think so. But IMHO, it would be OK to provide the old copyright
notices in an indirect way: put them in a different file and just give
a reference to this file, as long as this file is distributed together
with the man pages and can be found easily.

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