Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 01:14:20 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man page Copyrights Message-ID: <19981207011420.N8663@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <366AEB2C.A48E1D56@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 03:38:04PM -0500 References: <366AEB2C.A48E1D56@aei.ca>
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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 - <<TIMESTAMP>> > 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
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