Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:04:15 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Harald Servat <redcrash@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: importing mans from others OSes Message-ID: <20080303200415.GC57043@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <d825e0270803031027q1286d04w3c11e757ca9d22d4@mail.gmail.com> References: <d825e0270803031027q1286d04w3c11e757ca9d22d4@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:27:40PM +0100, Harald Servat wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently used the call backtrace[1] from the libexec (found in > /usr/local/lib) library and I've found it very useful. > As it does not have (nor their relatives) a manual entry, I wondered if I > could submit one for it. I'm not very skilled on writing manual > documentation, and I've never submitted anything to FreeBSD but a port, but > I'd like to try. libexecinfo is from the port devel/libexecinfo so the base system isn't relevant. If we were to add it to the base the following responses would apply. As it stands, the author could choose to include a GPL or APSL licensed manpage, but doing so would not be a step toward getting the functionality into the base (perhaps in libutil). > As I have access to a Linux machine that has this manual entry[2], I > wondered if I could use it as a base (or maybe copying it). However, as I > don't want to start a BSD-License vs GPL-license war, I just want to know if > it's permitted importing (using as a base, copying, ... or other > possibilities that do not come into my mind right now) manual files from > other OSes to FreeBSD. There's no chance we'd allow a GPL based manual for a non-GPL based function in the system. We require GPL licensed pieces to be carefully isolated and requiring that the documentation for a well integrated piece of functionality would make no sense. > Regards and thank you. > > PS Googling around, I've also seen that MacOSX has this manual entry[3], > but it's not as good as [2]. Being MacOSX BSD-based, is the situation better > to import it? An APSL licensed manpage is basically no better better than a GPL licensed one. If this were in the base we'd require that a manpage be licensed under the BSD license . -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHzFm/XY6L6fI4GtQRAjtRAJ9VzEf05ZS4QPSHPzAkf46o//A96wCeId5y 2ldVJEK4zWhJANCwx/jSbbo= =GrBE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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