Re: man-pages-6.14 released

["Andries E. Brouwer" <aeb@cwi.nl>]

On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 01:15:06AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Gidday!
> 
> I'm proud to announce:
> 
> 	man-pages-6.14 - manual pages for GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Global changes
> --------------
> 
> -  CREDITS, *
>    -  Move in-source contribution records to a new CREDITS file, and
>       update copyright notices to be uniform across the project.

Good morning!

I wonder about the legal status of such a change.
There is ownership of the pages, and a license that allows
others to do certain things.

If I pick a random page, man2/unlink.2, then it used to start

.\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 1992 Drew Eckhardt;
.\"             and Copyright (C) 1993 Ian Jackson
.\"             and Copyright (C) 2006, 2014 Michael Kerrisk.
.\"
.\" 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.
.\"
.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
.\" Modified 1996-09-08 by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
.\" Modified 1997-01-31 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
.\" Modified 2001-05-17 by aeb
.\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

Today I read

.\" Copyright, The contributors to the Linux man-pages project
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft

I no longer find the information about who owns this page.
The old permission notice does not seem to allow distribution
without this information.

Andries