From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED5EECAAD2 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:21:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229650AbiH2GVz (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2022 02:21:55 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56874 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229644AbiH2GVy (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2022 02:21:54 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 441 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:21:52 PDT Received: from kiste.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (kiste.informatik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.40.98]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D46A41D22 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:21:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=sicherha.de; h= content-type:content-type:mime-version:message-id:date:date :subject:subject:from:from; s=dkim20200822; t=1661753668; x= 1662617669; bh=/URuszxD0hzfyU4gCG+/Z6J/GhMPnaCJP9XTk1jke9s=; b=m s+XsFz+LO8e20b1gcGb7ze+MNbtu4IuksIrUFgKI4a8KD+j93CObL5F6Ydust7KE M+XpFg8MjdZg1W5Tk1R4C4kIm9nJdc3/zdmwkv+VT7GHeZbXNPXOtMkZElVOMRjc O/Y/b/GXUVeNhCeDOjM1pr26wowMnXvitQ0Uz1Sk3WAwkgAjwpj7tYVhT4VM7h0l mqfiblGd8Dbsh5L9w+lHbrF+rxizpgwUND8hlH+AyDzLcfK7nrPa9URPXs2EPmic ijdscOeamU9fAEiZd6PQRcMkk3j3huU5ICmBAusmV6rSQYEHSsIRvguTOVLihclW rhdpuGdXINGSa4eV2Yej57hh+DItCxFZcWoi5sxJYWrWlCWUn0BFrBbqfBWlTPAV gbjBlN69kHn3c5vLUdMQDJBkV/SJUc7A2KYfpDIRl4aN4o4sviCGu3cpcfNRu+Ac v79f3ys0FlXF0iC9QVnMJBz4PwhpUaB/7LJttBJqMu4LxIu81/eE/O4i3AY3woK6 ma4eOw7ZOP/ZcUIH8USMdkfeh+iYXkSmleeJRlZDRudR2AVs7lhvzk0pUqJwuhcs SKVnRNhuPgEdaEi/HQb+vjH0bTTHaCnwBhxQtslqy3t67RPHBA+Q1UDWF4sXBL20 GQS6gwE6rK0NKcewyPnqXFxS524ausYkqgKDk+cqmE= X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at sicherha.de Sender: christoph.erhardt@sicherha.de From: Christoph Erhardt To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Is man-pages-posix redistributable? Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:14:22 +0200 Message-ID: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3771136.44csPzL39Z"; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org --nextPart3771136.44csPzL39Z Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; protected-headers="v1" From: Christoph Erhardt To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Is man-pages-posix redistributable? Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:14:22 +0200 Message-ID: <3765026.aeNJFYEL58@delle> MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi list, I have a question regarding the redistribution of man-pages-posix. Prior to the 2017-a release, the POSIX_COPYRIGHT file contained the following paragraph: > Redistribution of this material is permitted so long as this notice and > the corresponding notices within each POSIX manual page are retained on > any distribution, and the nroff source is included. Modifications to > the text are permitted so long as any conflicts with the standard > are clearly marked as such in the text. In the 2017-a release, that paragraph has disappeared. I would like to clarify the implications of that for downstream distributions. The Fedora project, which is known to be very strict about licensing concerns, sees the new licence as impermissible and has dropped the POSIX man pages as a consequence: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116859 Now, Fedora's quasi-official way of dealing with such licensing issues would be to add the item in question to RPM Fusion's 'nonfree' package repository. I have opened an inclusion request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6396 However, the discussion there has raised the question whether the contents of man-pages-posix are redistributable *at all* - given that the clause mentioning redistribution has vanished from the licence. Could someone please clarify? 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