Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:52:23 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man page Copyrights Message-ID: <3671E877.770D6E05@aei.ca> References: <366AEB2C.A48E1D56@aei.ca> <19981207011420.N8663@follo.net>
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Eivind Eklund wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 03:38:04PM -0500, Malartre wrote: > > Hi > > http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/index.html > > I have writed a FAQ for FreeBSD users. I never writed a copyright > > notice. > > Mine is like that: > > ********** > > 09/30/1998 - <<TIMESTAMP>> > > http://lowrent.org/freebsd > > Copyright © 1998 Malartre, All rights reserved. > > For personnal/individual use only. > > Please simply ask my permission if you have a special request: > > Malartre, "freebsd@lowrent.org" > > or > > Malartre, "malartre@aei.ca". > > > > Of course, man pages are under their respective owner copyright. > > ********** > > I would like to know > > 1) Are man page copyrighted? > > Yes. They're generally under a FreeBSD style copyright. > > > 2) Is it a good copyright notice? > > Not really, no. It doesn't answer whether I can use it (read it) when > working with my company stuff, for instance. > > FreeBSD generally tries very hard to be commercial use friendly - look > at any of the source files that are not in gnu/ for our preferred > copyright style (minus the advertisement clause that you find in some > of these). > > A very good example is at > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html - see the parent > (http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/) for more details etc. > > > 3) Do I need such a copyright notice? > > You should have _some_ sort of copyright/license statement, to let > people know what they are allowed to do. > > Eivind. Hi I plan to release it under the BSD style copyright. I did see http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html but 1) where is the copyright of the handbook? The FreeBSD copyright say "in source and binary forms". A tutorial is not (and cannot be) a binary but is a text file. 2) What should I change in the BSD copyright to fit my need? Would that be ok: --------- Copyright (c) 1998 Malartre All rights reserved. malartre@aei.ca Redistribution and use with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1.Redistributions of <!?>source code</!?> must retain the above copyright notice and this condition. --------- Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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