On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Bonnie Corwin wrote:
This is not advertising. It is attribution and/or verbatim use of
third-party man pages.
Remember that man pages are also source files. When we use third-party man
pages or take information from third-party sources, we must explicitly cite
the attribution in/for those sources. That's what you're seeing in these
kinds of pages.
So, let me provide some context.
I am working on a putback of a community driver. The man page displayed
part of the BSD license, not all of it, but the 3 clause and the paragraph
under it.
I was told that ARC doesn't like copyrights in the man pages.
However, it seems there are some already.
So, this got me to thinking, that actually having the copyright and/or at
least state what license the software is licensed under is not that bad of
that thing to have, *IMO* (emphasized as I don't believe all share that
thought;-).
In searching, there's quite a few other pieces of software that do have
copyright notices in them.
For the record, I asked the author to remove the copyright (thanks
Garrett) just in case it was a problem and replaced the man page that was
attached to my CR to integrate the doc with the new on in bugster.
I personally wouldn't mind seeing something in the man page just to say,
this software is licensed under blah-blah, see the blah-blah license for
more details. Of course checking the sources is always the best, but it
would be a nice way to have a 2nd references (of course at the expense of
the authors and/or system putting it there).
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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
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