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Date:      Sat, 12 Dec 1998 19:58:34 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Man page Copyrights
Message-ID:  <19981212195834.W5444@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <3671E877.770D6E05@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 10:52:23PM -0500
References:  <366AEB2C.A48E1D56@aei.ca> <19981207011420.N8663@follo.net> <3671E877.770D6E05@aei.ca>

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On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 10:52:23PM -0500, Malartre wrote:
> 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.

This shouldn't matter.  The intent of the license is that 'binary'
means 'processed form', so if you e.g. store the tutorial with the
license as comments, they're not allowed to process and re-distribute
it without your license.

So I don't think you need to change it.

Eivind.

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