Copyrights in man pages (GD lib)

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

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