Hello,
I'm now in a similar situation as Steffen had been some time ago. Heirloom
doesn't format groff's manpages correctly. One of the reasons are macros added
to groff's -man (.SY, .OP, .YS) which are of course unknown to other roff
variants. I thought implementing these shoud be simple bu
> .\" Copyright (C) 2007-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> .\"
> .\" Written by Eric S. Raymond
> .\"Werner Lemberg
> .\"
> .\" You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
>
> I cannot use the first line unfortunately, it is not compatible to
> licences of other fil
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I cannot use the first line unfortunately, it is not compatible to
> > licences of other files.
>
> Why not? Please explain.
Ok, I'm not sure. Others files licence is CDDL, at least I have heared that a
binary can't use sources with mixed CDDL and GPL.
There are al
> But the mention of a FSF copyright has nothing to do with
> GPL--right?
Correct.
> For me it is polite to name the authors no matter for whom they
> work. Ok, if it has no disadvantages I can of course leave the FSF
> line as it is. But for me IMHO the people count, not the companies
> they
> > But the mention of a FSF copyright has nothing to do with
> > GPL--right?
>
> Correct.
Ok, if the file is "unlicenced" then the header can of course stay like it is.
Thank you for clarify this.
Carsten
Hi,
Werner LEMBERG wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 08:14:28PM +0100:
> Carsten Kunze wrote:
>> tmac/an-ext.tmac says:
>>> .\" Copyright (C) 2007-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> .\"
>>> .\" Written by Eric S. Raymond
>>> .\"Werner Lemberg
>>> .\"
>>> .\" You may freely use, mo
Hi Ingo,
thank you very much for explaining this in detail and giving a lot
of additional information. I need to save this mail for possible
later reference in similar cases.
That author names need to stay forever in a file is a matter
of course also without knowlegde of copyright laws.
Ok, now
Hi Carsten,
Carsten Kunze wrote on Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 08:38:43PM +0100:
> Werner Lemberg wrote:
>> Carsten Kunze wrote:
>>> But the mention of a FSF copyright has nothing to do with
>>> GPL--right?
>> Correct.
> Ok, if the file is "unlicenced"
Wait! The file is not "unlicensed", not at all.
>> Well, the authors don't matter in a copyright notice. The
>> important bit is the copyright holder, and this is the FSF,
>> regardless of the license.
>
> That seems like a decidedly U.S.-centric viewpoint to me, in clear
> violation of the Berne Convention, and of the copyright law of most
>
On 17/12/15 22:10, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> Well, the authors don't matter in a copyright notice. The
>>> important bit is the copyright holder, and this is the FSF,
>>> regardless of the license.
>>
>> That seems like a decidedly U.S.-centric viewpoint to me, in clear
>> violation of the Berne
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