Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Thomas Preisler wrote: >> Another question is whether there are any legal implications modifying >> the code and whether modifying the man page is considering modifying >> the code. I believe it is a complicating legal factor to change *any* >> source in the delivery and it may be the real reason why man pages >> stay as they are in all the GNU ports. I will have to look into that. > > Code that does not allow modifications is not open source and will not > make it past the license review by our lawyers. >
I'm no expert in Open Source. I know the GNU license does allow modifications but the question is what the legal implications are of making any source modification. And whether changing the man page is considered making source changes. I don't know. And would it require us to also ship the modified sources or make them available? I believe that is usually the requirement. Does anyone know? --thomas
