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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:19:59 +0000
From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>,
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Subject: Re: Man page Copyrights
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On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 01:14:20AM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 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.

Here is one I'm experimenting with, based on the BSD copyright, for
SGML documentation of my own. I've sent it to -core for deliberation on
whether it (or something like it) should be applied to the Handbook
and other documents.

The *first* thing I will do if -core thinks this is a good idea is 
contact the people who have contributed to the Handbook, and get their
agreement. I am most emphatically *not* talking about imposing a copyright
notice that the authors disagree with.

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Replace "Nik Clayton" in the above with your name, or "FreeBSD Inc." if 
you want to assign the copyright to the FreeBSD project.

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