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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>, tz@iana.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
	"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] zic.8: Add public domain notice
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:32:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab852b8f-2c05-ba10-187d-c7f0e6545dcd@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221123134827.10420-1-alx@kernel.org>

On 2022-11-23 05:48, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

> diff --git a/zic.8 b/zic.8
> index f79148f4..c2c61739 100644
> --- a/zic.8
> +++ b/zic.8
> @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
> +.\" %%%LICENSE_START(PUBLIC_DOMAIN)
> +.\" This page is in the public domain
> +.\" %%%LICENSE_END
> +.\"
>   .TH ZIC 8
>   .SH NAME
>   zic \- timezone compiler

Let's not do that upstream. The file already contains a public-domain 
notice at the bottom, in a human-readable format that is visible to 
anybody who looks at the printable version of the man page. Let's not 
put in comments for every downstream user with its own idiosyncratic 
machine-readable way of repeating what's already there.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-23 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-23 13:48 [PATCH v2 1/4] zic.8: Add public domain notice Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 13:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] zic.8: s/time zone/timezone/ for consistency Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 18:42   ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-23 19:02     ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 19:14   ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-23 13:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] zic.8: Use correct escape sequences instead of special characters Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 18:18   ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-23 18:43   ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-26  2:31     ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-26  3:07       ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-26 21:19       ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-27  0:12         ` Paul Eggert
2022-12-13 23:24           ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-11-23 13:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] zic.8: Use correct letter case in page title (TH) Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 18:45   ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-23 18:32 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2022-11-23 19:01   ` [PATCH v2 1/4] zic.8: Add public domain notice Alejandro Colomar
2022-11-23 19:19     ` Paul Eggert
2022-11-23 19:32       ` Alejandro Colomar

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