Copyrights in man pages (GD lib)
Carlos A. M. dos Santos
unixmania at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 14:35:56 UTC 2008
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:27 AM, GP <godpost at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have noted that there aren't many (if any) copyrights in FreeBSD manpages.
> I appreciate that. But GDlib has the following text in its license
>
> "Permission has been granted to copy, distribute and modify gd in
> any context without fee, including a commercial application,
> provided that this notice is present in user-accessible supporting
> documentation."
This requirement is fulfilled by installing GD's original documentation at
/usr/local/share/doc/gd/index.html
> The software I port only have a man page as user documentation.
> Dose that mean that I have to put all the boring copyright stuff in the
> bottom of the man page? Or is it considered fulfilled with a LICENSE file in
> the source dir? Any other options?
Yes, you must provide a copyright statement. From a legal point of
view it would be risky for the port maintainer to provide his/her own
version or interpretation of such copyright.
> How is "user-accessible" usually interpreted in this case?
It is interpreted as "available in a known place where users can find
it easyly".
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Carlos A. M. dos Santos
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