MJ Ray wrote: >> Redistribution of this material is permitted so long as this notice and >> the corresponding notices within each POSIX manual page are retained on >> any distribution, and the nroff source is included. Modifications to >> the text are permitted so long as any conflicts with the standard >> are clearly marked as such in the text. > > It would be nice to remove "in the text" from the end of this, I think.
Agreed. "In the text" could imply "right next to where you differ from the standard", which would probably be unreasonable enough to be non-free. Without the "in the text", modifiers could simply add a blanket notice somewhere in the distributed work saying "this has been changed and may not match the POSIX standard", which is a reasonable requirement. One other issue: does "and the nroff source is included" mean that if I want to hand someone a printed copy of a manual page, I have to either print the nroff source or supply it on an attached disk? This seems onerous for physical distribution. > It maybe also depends what the corresponding notices look like: are they > just copyright assertions? This clause doesn't say what the notices should look like, which seems like a good thing. I don't think this has anything to do with copyright notices; the kind of notice they are talking about is an explicit disclaimer of endorsement and of conformance to the standard. - Josh Triplett