From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Dec 6 16:14:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22849 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22844 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 16:14:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA27439; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 01:14:21 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id BAA12734; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 01:14:20 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981207011420.N8663@follo.net> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 01:14:20 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Malartre , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man page Copyrights References: <366AEB2C.A48E1D56@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <366AEB2C.A48E1D56@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 03:38:04PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message