Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:42:49 -0600 From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> To: Fehmi Noyan ISI <fnoyanisi@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updating the ieee80211(9) manual page Message-ID: <20161116144248.GA86797@kduck.kaduk.org> In-Reply-To: <1573107513.800805.1479268173950@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1689921305.1664375.1478815163976.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1689921305.1664375.1478815163976@mail.yahoo.com> <20161110220347.GM91607@kduck.kaduk.org> <1573107513.800805.1479268173950@mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 03:49:33AM +0000, Fehmi Noyan ISI wrote: > Thanks Benjamin, > > Both NetBSD [1] and FreeBSD [2] versions of ieee80211.9 manual pages have been licensed with a 2-cluase BSD license by their respective authors. > > > If I update the FreeBSD ieee80211(9) man page with the information from ieee80211(9) man page from NetBSD, what should the license look like? > > Would something similar to one given below be OK? > > > .\" Copyright (c) 2004 Bruce M. Simpson <bms@spc.org> > .\" Copyright (c) 2004 Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org> > .\" Copyright (c) 2009 Sam Leffler, Errno Consulting > .\" All rights reserved. > ... rest of the license comes here Yes, that's the right thing to do. > Also, in the HISTORY part, is it worth mentioning that the (FreeBSD) manual page was updated with the information from NetBSD IEEE80211 man page? I would not insist on it if a submission appeared that did not include such a mention, but it is better to have it present than absent. -Ben
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