Hi list! We've got 4 derivatives of the "VERBATIM" (now one of them in SPDX as Linux-man-pages-copyleft") license. I'll paste here the four. =========== $ cat LICENSES/Linux-man-pages-copyleft.txt Copyright (c) <year> <owner> All rights reserved. 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 Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date.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. =========== $ head -n21 man2/set_mempolicy.2 .\" Copyright 2003,2004 Andi Kleen, SuSE Labs. .\" and Copyright 2007 Lee Schermerhorn, Hewlett Packard .\" .\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM_PROF) .\" 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 .\" .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date.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. .\" .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END =========== $ head -n8 man2/getcpu.2 .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 2006 Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>. .\" .\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM_ONE_PARA) .\" Permission is granted to distribute possibly modified copies .\" of this page provided the header is included verbatim, .\" and in case of nontrivial modification author and date .\" of the modification is added to the header. .\" %%%LICENSE_END =========== $ head -n13 man2/move_pages.2 .\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. .\" Christoph Lameter .\" .\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM_TWO_PARA) .\" 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. .\" %%%LICENSE_END =========== And here go the copyright holders: $ grep -rl VERBATIM man* \ | xargs grep -L 'VERBATIM_PROF' \ | xargs grep -hi -e copyright -e '(c)' \ | sort \ | uniq; .\" Copyright (C) 2008-2014, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>, .\" Copyright 2009 Intel Corporation .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 1998 Alan Cox. .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 1998 Heiner Eisen. .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 1998 Pawel Krawczyk. .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 1999 Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>, .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 1999 Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>. .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 1999 Claus Fischer. .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 1999 Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxx>. .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 2000 Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>. .\" This man page is Copyright (C) 2006 Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>. .\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. .\" and Copyright (C) 2008 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> .\" and Copyright (C) 2016, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> .\" and copyright (c) 1999 Matthew Wilcox. .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are I CCd the ones for which I know their email. =========== Here goes some comments about them: The one and two paragraph licenses are almost identical to the usual one. There seems to be a small diference regarding translations in the 2-paragraph one, being more restrictive. Was that intentional? Or maybe it was just an accident, and there was no intention of disallowing translations? Would you please relicense to either Linux-man-pages-copyleft or VERBATIM_PROF? Also, Linux-man-pages-copyleft seems to contain a sentence that makes it differ from VERBATIM_PROF: """ 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. """ I believe the quality of non-professional code and manuals to be at least as high as the professional one. We have more freedom to reject crap. I propose also deprecating Linux-man-pages-copyleft and moving to VERBATIM_PROF as the single surviving license from all four variants. We're also discussing the names that each of these four should be given in SPDX. I suggest (in order of appearance in this email): - Linux-man-pages-copyleft to be renamed to the following, and mark it as a deprecated license. Linux-man-pages-copyleft-nopro Linux man-pages Copyleft (non-professional) - VERBATIM_PROF to be SPDX'd as: Linux-man-pages-copyleft-qual Linux man-pages Copyleft (high quality) - VERBATIM_TWO_PARA to be SPDX'd as: Linux-man-pages-copyleft-notrans Linux man-pages Copyleft (no translations) - VERBATIM_ONE_PARA to be SPDX'd as: Linux-man-pages-copyleft-verbatim Linux man-pages Copyleft (verbatim) Cheers, Alex On 5/18/23 14:38, Adam Dobes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have recently begun converting license names of licenses found in > Fedora's man-pages package to SPDX. Several of these licenses did not > have corresponding license identifier in SPDX. Because of this I have > submitted several license review requests for these licenses on SPDX > Github (links listed below). If you have any further comments > regarding these requests, please feel free to add them. > > One of these licenses, LDP-1 (found in man5/dir_colors.5), was > unfortunately determined to be not-allowed in Fedora, so I'd like to > ask if it's possible to change the license of this man page so that it > can be included in Fedora. > > Links to the issues mentioned above: > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1947 > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1955 > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1957 > https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1959 > > Regards, > Adam > -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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