From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 01:00:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A78106566C for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:00:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (cpoproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [69.89.21.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48EE58FC15 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:00:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3590 invoked by uid 0); 6 Aug 2010 01:00:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 6 Aug 2010 01:00:23 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=BoHON7L+9kd71v0VIbocUm9kjClvcToW0PmYuYWmu9ugPKUFc6xlzLe9EfY+R9dni0m5ceBwoyAllP890hqCHj6szLG2tTSHp82/J706/PGIi5YGywFfHQAdXDQ7lx50; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhBIM-00065S-FV for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:00:23 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:58:00 -0600 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 18:58:00 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100806005800.GA34053@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: copyright for man pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:00:24 -0000 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:16:20AM -0400, r@mlg3.com wrote: > Hello, >=20 > Sorry of this is the wrong list but what is the copyright situation for= =20 > things like man pages? If I want to host a copy of one on the web or=20 > something, is there some additional disclaimer I need to add? As I understand it, most man pages and other FreeBSD documentation is distributed under the terms of the FreeBSD Documentation License: http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html Anything that says "GNU" in it (because it's related to GNU software) is likely to be distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html Some man pages are likely to be distributed under the standard BSD License. There may or may not be some stuff distributed under the terms of the BSD Documentation License, which is actually a derivative of the FreeBSD Documentation License. There may be a couple here and there distributed under other licenses as well. I'm not anyone officially associated with the documentation project, though, so don't just take my word for it if you have reason to question what I've said. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxbXhgACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWWyACfWUw2q/+nwwjHofZ7PXlVli09 qxoAoLkeKodMAjkWAXSnFCup/tDOYbEJ =trJ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--