From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 20:04:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F301065672 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:04:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (cl-162.ewr-01.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:a1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156F28FC1C for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:04:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m23K4G61059457; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:04:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m23K4FSp059456; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:04:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:04:15 -0600 From: Brooks Davis To: Harald Servat Message-ID: <20080303200415.GC57043@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:04:16 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: importing mans from others OSes X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:04:17 -0000 --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:27:40PM +0100, Harald Servat wrote: > Hello, >=20 > 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, b= ut > 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. >=20 > 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 bet= ter > 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 --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHzFm/XY6L6fI4GtQRAjtRAJ9VzEf05ZS4QPSHPzAkf46o//A96wCeId5y 2ldVJEK4zWhJANCwx/jSbbo= =GrBE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD--