[Minor self corrections.] On 5/26/23 00:56, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > 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 manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date.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 .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date.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: of _TWO_PARA and _ONE_PARA, which are the main ones I want to get rid of. _TWO_PARA seems to be non-free according to Fedora (and they seem right). > > $ 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): Of course, I messed the order, but luckily I included the old names so it's clear. > > - 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: and mark it as a deprecated license. > > Linux-man-pages-copyleft-notrans > Linux man-pages Copyleft (no translations) > > - VERBATIM_ONE_PARA to be SPDX'd as: and mark it as a deprecated license. > > 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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