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 3E2AEC04A95 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:17:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233972AbiI1IRD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2022 04:17:03 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41716 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230305AbiI1IQ3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Sep 2022 04:16:29 -0400 Received: from kiste.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (kiste.informatik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.40.98]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B09207B1E5 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 01:15:34 -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=1664352927; x=1665216928; bh=iUVZzIP1ViJqZ3ecUFsNAoiI29/hzPiW n5mWaHRUYgM=; b=rbSKGX6zB0sZ+H7DzY4UAJnzMYjdgdLDsqe5TMWdT5r9IM0w AfefCDOjKrbRhDbP/6aNYDZuQSAeTfj9bTNx08Pk5zWkEP8z6PSi9WgKdUHyPltV 9AZC++DzU+wb7O0fKGd1Fj83MghibJ8fuvcbu5ATSsR2+/buO69IG6as5qlx6cp6 BPwL+RFCtTQclriHwi1ixKdkPOKdSUW0PFrInJwG5IcG0bJF3MhGbPe4/9oUSQd9 Tj1aT09bi9Y+yJi1KLbyXBOGYlKqPuXnjdvvL4LVSltALQfTEudPKSy+szyDliIg 0JYzhJpUu3yedDYpPReokmPLjqyS8JQ69WaKJPvdDhuQU/sv0a7TaPNgSZZM3a+s iGhXe0f9qHvJ/xZ896nVcGxRDRJpfmeWdtZkMuXNqDLrmz6BMvE5mYxkn+6nDlSw weKElcGjssqXRppOknIRQ1S0AJIFD8OjuSE53SySejoBzikxznpqq46Wl4ryFXjl TqRvG4oUWZ51wThAlwu9nsfGRwvh8pk83IlV6Bs96qg6qD10SkkNS5oAIzwirS2J DC7bEjLeM3T8GxRxkA7/JwkpLhqA9cBBbSiMgoEycxuwqQ+Xd6hq526Krl5RX2IJ plvGHotIi7gIfHqlI+LdDzJNZ1ci0laqiWGPGHakmeGVTywpNVyEfgBF62w= 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: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:15:19 +0200 Message-ID: <22845672.EfDdHjke4D@delle> In-Reply-To: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> References: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8660846.EvYhyI6sBW"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --nextPart8660846.EvYhyI6sBW 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: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:15:19 +0200 Message-ID: <22845672.EfDdHjke4D@delle> In-Reply-To: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> References: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Anyone? My preferred answer would be 'your question is stupid; *of course* man-pages- posix is redistributable'. So if that is indeed the case, please don't hesitate to say so. ;-) 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 --nextPart8660846.EvYhyI6sBW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. 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