From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Dec 11 19:53:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09351 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 19:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09346 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 19:53:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-110-231.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.110.231]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA09630; Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:53:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3671E877.770D6E05@aei.ca> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:52:23 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eivind Eklund CC: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man page Copyrights References: <366AEB2C.A48E1D56@aei.ca> <19981207011420.N8663@follo.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 - <> > > 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