On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 12:31:53PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 11:15:16AM +0100, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I believe BSD license is quite misunderstood. In fact it iterates conditions > > to use license and there is no option for paying for license if all > > conditios are met. > > > > There is however generally not met condition of providing copyright text in > > documentation. I believe man should have automate > > > > displaying copyright text when providing documentation for BSD licensed > > software. There are other places where copyright should be displayed to. > > I think the generally accepted thinking is that having the license in > a file placed in some directory that is clearly marked as documentation > should be sufficient to meet the terms of the license. That is, if > somebody looks for the software license in the program's distributed > documentation, they should be able to find it. > > For Debian packages, having the file mentioned in a section of > the /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/copyright file is enough.
Of course, this should have been "...having the *license* mentioned..." G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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