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| <h1>Licenses for <em>man-pages</em></h1> |
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| <p> |
| All submissions to <em>man-pages</em> must be licensed using a |
| license that permits the page to be freely redistributed and modified. |
| Include that license or a reference to it, |
| in the source code of the man page. |
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| <p> |
| There are many such licenses, but in the interests of minimizing |
| the number of licenses in <em>man-pages</em>, |
| it is preferred that you use one of the following: |
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| <li> |
| <a href="#verbatim">The "verbatim" license</a> |
| (personal preference of the current maintainer, and seems also to have |
| been the preference of the previous maintainer as well; |
| also the most widely used license currently used in <em>man-pages</em>.) |
| <br> |
| <br> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="#gpl">The GNU General Public License (GPL)</a> |
| <br> |
| <br> |
| </li> |
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| <li> |
| <a href="#gpl">The BSD License</a> |
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| <p> |
| <em>man-pages</em> does not include pages under the |
| <a href="https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)</a>. |
| This is a purely pragmatic decision, made because the |
| <a href="https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001">GFDL is problematic for Debian</a>, |
| one of the most widely used distributions. |
| </p> |
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| <hr> |
| <a name="verbatim"></a> |
| <H2>The "Verbatim" License</H2> |
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| <p> |
| To use this license, just include the following at the top |
| of the page source, and substitute the appropriate pieces: |
| </p> |
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| <!-- |
| Andries Brouwer believes this license was written by Rik Faith, |
| back in man-pages-1.4 or so. See |
| https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20200916100649.GA476613@if/ |
| From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> |
| Subject: Re: [RFC v4] system_data_types.7: Document sigval, ssize_t, suseconds_t, time_t, timer_t, timespec & timeval |
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| <pre class="shell"> |
| <strong> |
| .\" Copyright (c) <em><year></em>, <em><copyright holder></em> |
| .\" |
| .\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM) |
| .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this |
| .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are |
| .\" preserved on all copies. |
| .\" |
| .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of |
| .\" this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that |
| .\" the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of |
| .\" a permission notice identical to this one. |
| .\" |
| .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this |
| .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume. |
| .\" no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting. |
| .\" from the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may. |
| .\" not have taken the same level of care in the production of this. |
| .\" manual, which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working. |
| .\" professionally. |
| .\" |
| .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by |
| .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. |
| .\" %%%LICENSE_END |
| </strong> |
| </pre> |
| |
| <hr> |
| |
| <a name="gpl"></a> |
| <h2>The GNU General Public License (GPL)</h2> |
| |
| <p> |
| You can license under the GPL |
| by including the following text at the top |
| of the page source, and substituting the appropriate pieces. |
| Licensing under GPLv2 is preferred, because so far only v2 of |
| the GPL is used in any man pages, and I'd prefer to avoid |
| further license proliferation. |
| </p> |
| |
| <pre class="shell"> |
| <strong> |
| .\" Copyright (c) <em><year></em>, <em><copyright holder></em> |
| .\" |
| .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL) |
| .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or |
| .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as |
| .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version <em>2</em> of |
| .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
| .\" |
| .\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" |
| .\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any |
| .\" document formatting or typesetting system, including |
| .\" intermediate and printed output. |
| .\" |
| .\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| .\" GNU General Public License for more details. |
| .\" |
| .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public |
| .\" License along with this manual; if not, see |
| .\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
| .\" %%%LICENSE_END |
| </strong> |
| </pre> |
| |
| <hr> |
| <a name="bsd"></a> |
| <H2>BSD</H2> |
| |
| <p> |
| To use this license, just include the following at the top |
| of the page source, and substitute the appropriate pieces: |
| </p> |
| |
| <pre class="shell"> |
| <strong> |
| .\" Copyright (c) <em><year></em>, <em><copyright holder></em> |
| .\" All rights reserved. |
| .\" |
| .\" %%%LICENSE_START(BSD_3_CLAUSE) |
| .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without |
| .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions |
| .\" are met: |
| .\" * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright |
| .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. |
| .\" * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright |
| .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in |
| .\" the documentation and/or other materials provided with the |
| .\" distribution. |
| .\" * Neither the name of the <em><organization></em> |
| .\" nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or |
| .\" promote products derived from this software without specific prior |
| .\" written permission. |
| .\" |
| .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY <em><copyright-holder></em> |
| .\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT |
| .\" LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS |
| .\" FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. |
| .\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE <em><copyright-holder></em> |
| .\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, |
| .\" OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT |
| .\" OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; |
| .\" OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF |
| .\" LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING |
| .\" NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS |
| .\" SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. |
| .\" %%%LICENSE_END |
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