Hi again, after digging a little bit I found a few things:
Axel Beckert wrote: > The copyright file of asr-manpages says "It was downloaded from > ftp://ftp.winternet.com/users/eric/asr.pages.tar"; and lists authors > for all manpages explicitly. This seems gone as that server no more allows anonymous FTP and the Wayback Machine doesn't seem to crawl FTP. The original web page with the statement that distribution and usage is encourage is though visible at http://web.archive.org/web/19981202023122/http://www.winternet.com/%7Eeric/sysadmin/manpages.html The exact statement is "The pages have been troff formatted, so you can install them at your site. This is encouraged." So they at least fulfill the non-free requirement (as there's no statement about modification). There is though a copy of Eric's page at http://www.infonet.ee/~sbernard/manpage/ including a tar-ball at http://www.infonet.ee/~sbernard/manpage/asr_pages.tar.gz After adjusting the file suffixes, there's not much diff between that tar ball and what's in Debian's asr-manpages_1.3.orig.tar.gz (mostly typo fixes) so I assume that's an original source: $ diff -r asr_pages asr-manpages-1.3 Only in asr-manpages-1.3: c.1 Only in asr-manpages-1.3: debian diff -r asr_pages/knife.8 asr-manpages-1.3/knife.8 2c2 < .SH KNIFE --- > .SH NAME diff -r asr_pages/luser.8 asr-manpages-1.3/luser.8 5c5 < luser \- process to control the clueless induhviduals --- > luser \- process to control the clueless individuals diff -r asr_pages/people.2 asr-manpages-1.3/people.2 30c30 < pid_t prgp_leader; --- > pid_t pgrp_leader; 60c60 < #include <sys/pople.h> --- > #include <sys/people.h> 74c74 < kill(-(ttys[c].pgrp_leader),SIGKILL); --- > kill(-(ttys[c].pgrp_leader),SIGKILL); diff -r asr_pages/slave.1 asr-manpages-1.3/slave.1 21c21 < Send a rapid succession of \fISIHUP\fPs to \fIslave\fP, mainly used --- > Send a rapid succession of \fISIGHUP\fPs to \fIslave\fP, mainly used diff -r asr_pages/sysadmin.1 asr-manpages-1.3/sysadmin.1 1,2c1,2 < \." Written by Abby Franquement-Guillory ([email protected]). < \." Convered to troff by Eric Pederson ([email protected]). --- > .\" Written by Abby Franquement-Guillory ([email protected]). > .\" Convered to troff by Eric Pederson ([email protected]). Oh, and I intend to contact all known authors and ask for license clarification. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
