From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 02:27:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA7E106566C for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:27:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r@mlg3.com) Received: from archimedes.unixsysadmin.org (archimedes.unixsysadmin.org [173.203.90.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B66F8FC12 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by archimedes.unixsysadmin.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 0A1F2480AC; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:28:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by archimedes.unixsysadmin.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073814802F; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:28:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:28:35 -0400 (EDT) From: r@mlg3.com X-X-Sender: r@archimedes To: Chad Perrin In-Reply-To: <20100806005800.GA34053@guilt.hydra> Message-ID: References: <20100806005800.GA34053@guilt.hydra> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copyright for man pages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:27:20 -0000 On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:16:20AM -0400, r@mlg3.com wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Sorry of this is the wrong list but what is the copyright situation for >> things like man pages? If I want to host a copy of one on the web or >> something, is there some additional disclaimer I need to add? > > As I understand it, most man pages and other FreeBSD documentation is > distributed under the terms of the FreeBSD Documentation License: > > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html > > Anything that says "GNU" in it (because it's related to GNU software) is > likely to be distributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation > License: > > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html > > Some man pages are likely to be distributed under the standard BSD > License. There may or may not be some stuff distributed under the terms > of the BSD Documentation License, which is actually a derivative of the > FreeBSD Documentation License. There may be a couple here and there > distributed under other licenses as well. > > I'm not anyone officially associated with the documentation project, > though, so don't just take my word for it if you have reason to question > what I've said. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > Svein and Chad, What you're saying makes sense. Thanks! -- Rodrigo