On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 05:28:49PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Pali, > > On 8/5/21 11:51 AM, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > > > Also, you forgot a license for this code, that is required if you want > > > > > people to use it... > > > > > > > > Hm... I do not see any license in other manpage examples. Does not apply > > > > for it global license defined in ioctl_tty.2 file? > > > > > > That does not mean you do not need it. > > I don't know what is the status of the current code examples in terms of > licensing. > > I thought I had seen an SPDX license identifier in one of them some time > ago, but now I can't find it. > > Technically, the pages have a license at the top of each file, which isn't > printed on the rendered output (the license text doesn't require so) (see > that text below). > > If you want a different license for your example (let's say you want it BSD > for example), I guess you could add an SPDX line at the top of the example > for simplicity. > > But if your code example adheres to the same license as the rest of the > page, I guess you don't need to do anything in your patch. What is the license of a man page? What is the license of this page? And if it is not shown in the code segment itself, that's going to be a mess, please make it explicit, otherwise no one can ever use any of the code examples for anything. thanks, greg k-h
