From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from joooj.vinc17.net (joooj.vinc17.net [155.133.131.76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B55212E5B; Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=155.133.131.76 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750983787; cv=none; b=R9nYon1UpAdhzVg8PoAmv6Ba1hOg7/IYgEtJVjbsB9trqtMcnHztF/Jm5rrXJW6u3Ys3bK0HVuY+sbjbRdRWIvor7a9A1vockf4pmYUCgrSjIZUVNCxpzmoB8ymZJH0e6dVt2VCtKs0MKGPWZEiE1Lm2267OcWD/gJODRbrkRPU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750983787; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ARQyf+w3iW4Di+uKWvsWr3VefT5lXktN5+Vu3+WI1r0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=rsOv/esJAgYEqdRi6yaas+Q1HxtjhkDyufTuDJ8ImZdNDkD8BFt6dMoWSvCx5jqcFNasr5RP3Z6v82aVaTaGzEr/1J5xvXn9uW7JnZAjLA1PQwNrk5H9/tkbTnwf7pdDKLopwHP1eFY2x2yeu+Hm4HLsCHT1QEpcenjLp3nhheQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=vinc17.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=vinc17.net; arc=none smtp.client-ip=155.133.131.76 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=vinc17.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=vinc17.net Received: from smtp-qaa.vinc17.net (2a02-8428-1b1d-4d01-96a9-491d-7b48-ba31.rev.sfr.net [IPv6:2a02:8428:1b1d:4d01:96a9:491d:7b48:ba31]) by joooj.vinc17.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0E6285CF; Fri, 27 Jun 2025 02:20:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by qaa.vinc17.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4A6E5CA045B; Fri, 27 Jun 2025 02:20:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 02:20:11 +0200 From: Vincent Lefevre To: Carlos O'Donell Cc: Alejandro Colomar , "Andries E. Brouwer" , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: man-pages-6.14 released Message-ID: <20250627002011.GA431181@qaa.vinc17.org> Mail-Followup-To: Vincent Lefevre , Carlos O'Donell , Alejandro Colomar , "Andries E. Brouwer" , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: <20250509112627.GA924923@if> <20250509121454.GA952723@if> <3e82680d-149c-4a67-b838-bc73c0be3e4e@redhat.com> <42dad79f-e0f2-4731-ac14-0189f5d278a0@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <42dad79f-e0f2-4731-ac14-0189f5d278a0@redhat.com> X-Mailer-Info: https://www.vinc17.net/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.13+86 (bb2064ae) vl-169878 (2025-02-08) On 2025-06-26 19:01:24 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On 6/26/25 5:04 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > The thing is, as someone else mentioned, removals happen also implicitly This was me, there: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/u2ogua4573d2xm2p2oiuna67kydkr3e26pt6lixeidezdw34dg@nvn64na3cptt/T/#me71349fc15520d5c183311dfaf85667903c07d9d > > by moving text from one page to another and not copying copyright > > notices, so how much does it matter an intentional rewrite of the > > copyright notices into a different form (but which keeps their > > copyright, as part of the AUTHORS file), compared to an unintentional > > removal of copyright by moving the text (these do actually remove > > copyright, so these are the problematic ones). > > Both are legally mistakes. Mistakes, yes (as long as copyright notices are per-file). But legally? Why? I've always heard that a copyright notice was optional and only informative (so, in particular, there are no requirements to have per-file copyright notices instead of a single one for the work). -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)