Hi Gerhard,

Gerhard Roth wrote on Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 02:39:42PM +0200:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 13:08:49 +0200 Martin Pieuchot <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 07/06/16(Tue) 11:53, Gerhard Roth wrote:
>>> On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 10:30:11 +0200 Martin Pieuchot <[email protected]> wrote:

>>>> Any reason for using a different license in documentation and code?

>>> Different in what sense?  Which paragraph do you mean?

>> This is a BSD 2-clauses the code is ISC.

>>> I just copied it from some other man page in share/man/man4.

Please do not copy random ancient licenses.

>>> Can't remember which one it was.  But they all say pretty much the
>>> same thing.

>> Well if you don't mind, please use /usr/share/misc/license.template :)

> Seriously, you don't mean that!

We always use /usr/share/misc/license.template
for new documentation, please consider doing that, too.
Of course, you have to adjust the commenting style
from C to roff(7) syntax.

The canonical example is:  /usr/src/share/man/man7/mdoc.7

> Did you take a look at that file?

What's wrong with using it for documentation as well as for code?

Yours,
  Ingo

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