On Friday 06 August 2021 09:22:59 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Greg, Pali, > > Hi GregOn 8/5/21 7:54 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > What is the license of this page? > > > > > > .../linux/man-pages$ head -n8 man2/ioctl_tty.2 > > > .\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms <walter.harms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > .\" and Andries Brouwer <aeb@xxxxxx>. > > > .\" > > > .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPL_NOVERSION_ONELINE) > > > .\" Distributed under GPL > > > > What version of GPL? > > I don't know :/ > Maybe v1... > > > > > > .\" %%%LICENSE_END > > > .\" > > > .TH IOCTL_TTY 2 2021-03-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > > > > > > I'm don't know what GPL_NOVERSION_ONLINE is at all. > > > > I would recommend adding proper SPDX markings to all of these files. > > Even better, work to make the whole repo REUSE compliant which means > > that there is no ambuiguity here. > > > > Agree. If Michael has no problems with that, I'll add it to my TODO list. > > > But, the above license does not show up on the code in the original > > example here, and that needs to be present if anyone wants this to be > > used. > > Yup. > > > > > > Still, if the code is going to have a different license than the rest of the > > > page, it could perfectly have an SPDX comment in the first line of the > > > example program. > > > > Even if it is different, it should still be present as no one can see > > the license of a man page "easily" when reading the documentation > > through normal tools. > > Yup. > > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > > > Pali, > > If you want to specify a specific license for your code, add 2 SPDX lines > according to REUSE <https://reuse.software/>. If not, I'll assume that you > don't care, and when I fix the pages to show the license (which in this case > I'm not sure which one will be, maybe GPLv1) your code will use that same > license. I'll take care of any necessary adjustments such as providing the > license text in the repository; you don't need to do that. Just do not complicate it and use same license as for other manpages or examples. > > Cheers, > > Alex > > > -- > Alejandro Colomar > Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
