* licenses for manual pages
@ 2008-12-11 23:52 Glenn Morris
2008-12-12 0:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-12 11:06 ` Richard M Stallman
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2008-12-11 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
What is the appropriate permissions notice to use for the manual pages
in doc/man?
emacsclient.1 is public domain - fine.
etags.1 has a simple "preserve permissions" notice.
emacs.1 has the same notice as etags.1, but contains the GPL
boilerplate as a comment at the start, which is confusing, even if it
may be technically correct to note that Emacs as a whole is GPL'd.
ebrowse.1 has no permissions notice.
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* Re: licenses for manual pages
2008-12-11 23:52 licenses for manual pages Glenn Morris
@ 2008-12-12 0:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-12 16:01 ` Ulrich Mueller
2008-12-12 11:06 ` Richard M Stallman
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From: Dan Nicolaescu @ 2008-12-12 0:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> ebrowse.1 has no permissions notice.
Please attach whatever is appropriate for man pages.
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* Re: licenses for manual pages
2008-12-11 23:52 licenses for manual pages Glenn Morris
2008-12-12 0:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
@ 2008-12-12 11:06 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-13 4:21 ` Glenn Morris
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Richard M Stallman @ 2008-12-12 11:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Glenn Morris; +Cc: emacs-devel
etags.1 has a simple "preserve permissions" notice.
emacs.1 has the same notice as etags.1, but contains the GPL
boilerplate as a comment at the start, which is confusing, even if it
may be technically correct to note that Emacs as a whole is GPL'd.
emacs.1 is certainly bad.
We could stick with what etags.1 does; it is ok.
Or we could change them to the GFDL, or say "you can also use
this under the GFDL."
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* Re: licenses for manual pages
2008-12-12 0:04 ` Dan Nicolaescu
@ 2008-12-12 16:01 ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2008-12-12 16:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Nicolaescu; +Cc: Glenn Morris, emacs-devel
>> ebrowse.1 has no permissions notice.
> Please attach whatever is appropriate for man pages.
BTW, ebrowse.1 contains a copy-and-paste-error:
--- doc/man/ebrowse.1
+++ doc/man/ebrowse.1
@@ -4,3 +4,3 @@
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B emacsclient
+.B ebrowse
.I "[options] files ..."
Also, vanilla groff will mangle the UTF-8 encoding of the author's
name. Not sure what's best here, maybe "ö" -> "oe" to play it safe.
(groff will accept latin-1 as input, and also has "\[:o]" for
o-umlaut, but I don't know how portable these are.)
Ulrich
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* Re: licenses for manual pages
2008-12-12 11:06 ` Richard M Stallman
@ 2008-12-13 4:21 ` Glenn Morris
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From: Glenn Morris @ 2008-12-13 4:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rms; +Cc: emacs-devel
Richard M Stallman wrote:
> emacs.1 is certainly bad.
>
> We could stick with what etags.1 does; it is ok.
OK, I tidied that up.
> Or we could change them to the GFDL, or say "you can also use
> this under the GFDL."
Personally I don't think it's worth bothering for the man pages, about
which we do not care very much.
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