On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:33:17PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > severity 364847 normal > thanks > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:20:27AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > Package: manpages-dev > > Version: 2.22-1 > > Severity: serious > > > I think this manpage crosses the line; it is "distributed under GPL", > > yet the content is copied nearly-verbatim from the glibc manual. > > > "The GNU C library lets you modify the behavior of..." *is* a copy, > > and the example code is pretty much a sized-down copy, too. > > > I make no claim but that this manpage should not be distributed as is > > with a "gpl" annotation. > > Works may be licensed under multiple licenses, perhaps released at different > times in their history. Unless you have evidence that the contents of > manpages-dev got there by making a copy from the GFDLed manual, I don't > believe we should treat this as a serious license problem. .\" Heavily based on glibc documentation
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