From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F25CC54EE9 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229514AbiIRO7v (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2022 10:59:51 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41670 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229533AbiIRO7t (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2022 10:59:49 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 448 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Sun, 18 Sep 2022 07:59:46 PDT Received: from kiste.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (kiste.informatik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.40.98]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DC41EE1E for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2022 07:59:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=sicherha.de; h= content-type:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:date:date:subject:subject:from:from; s=dkim20200822; t=1663512730; x=1664376731; bh=JJxQHTa3Aqp/dgwvdBehePejr1Xotzxn CUhMpFZXndY=; b=ohoPKnDj1wz4G3dz4A9j9/rFMC54/hORy785m5Hw5rLbHd9A 87F4XTuOURCDwJF/rrZHd4tFkSdFhnOA7JxUusKsNWlXiVJa8u40l5QvMuDNSING JC7dfrXZhW/SsEXz4xYw+hwnFJrp+uJf0/rSoMKuJ9owC/x4uNQsvXZfyDJOda2E RSfTj4/TjbtbLVnYKNeNHImJqEI/AxFDMWgG8fDSYNPUU1oOpJtjJ4AkDEH3OtTZ JHsYykqzZ5sd3yYLUt7oC5yz2ONgj76wemSRl0SDPQxwwAEyvFebJZjlu0PQoQHf PELL5POzU/e1ivWbxEENY4pqd4ugzXWbvlp05b5bFE3aEBShVVIuQWb/X9Gsr+LM Qx9uEBGnYBFyJc1vmm20QxSF+/uZWitH/dQ6AY9dhghUIfLwhYDKxSNX2l4/JX+w aYWx5zHpmdRdIgChLH7JX0+azyiOk6DeVNV6lsL5S0E11XnshEXG8883uOeVqBiu dYmT9yO4MTXQsPNCAh0iI4I0OgHQ7J/iFJwa+bo5DRhb4NnEw5xRgo5rfSypiGzZ +XEj/qY4T2/d0sKLdqyeUpkY0OjN3ws46H4NUSD2wIoil6Sel/IVEkpxETTp7pma C/fQ4Iykl2DyVOw+8cZL2D3M7abaufXj6WJ9Nl91k4RB2xgX9PEI6hwRzWE= X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at sicherha.de Sender: christoph.erhardt@sicherha.de From: Christoph Erhardt To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is man-pages-posix redistributable? Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 16:51:45 +0200 Message-ID: <13285139.O9o76ZdvQC@delle> In-Reply-To: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> References: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6831752.DvuYhMxLoT"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --nextPart6831752.DvuYhMxLoT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; protected-headers="v1" From: Christoph Erhardt To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is man-pages-posix redistributable? Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 16:51:45 +0200 Message-ID: <13285139.O9o76ZdvQC@delle> In-Reply-To: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> References: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi all, who would be capable of answering that question? Thanks, Christoph On Monday, 29 August 2022 08:14:22 CEST Christoph Erhardt wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a question regarding the redistribution of man-pages-posix. > Prior to the 2017-a release, the POSIX_COPYRIGHT file contained the > following > paragraph: > > Redistribution of this material is permitted so long as this notice and > > the corresponding notices within each POSIX manual page are retained on > > any distribution, and the nroff source is included. Modifications to > > the text are permitted so long as any conflicts with the standard > > are clearly marked as such in the text. > > In the 2017-a release, that paragraph has disappeared. I would like to > clarify the implications of that for downstream distributions. > > The Fedora project, which is known to be very strict about licensing > concerns, sees the new licence as impermissible and has dropped the POSIX > man pages as a consequence: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116859 > > Now, Fedora's quasi-official way of dealing with such licensing issues would > be to add the item in question to RPM Fusion's 'nonfree' package > repository. I have opened an inclusion request: > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6396 > > However, the discussion there has raised the question whether the contents > of man-pages-posix are redistributable *at all* - given that the clause > mentioning redistribution has vanished from the licence. > > Could someone please clarify? > > Thanks a lot, > Christoph --nextPart6831752.DvuYhMxLoT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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