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Re: checklicenses.py
From: João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 03:04:04 +0100
On 08/09/2016 02:52 AM, Guy Harris wrote:
On Aug 8, 2016, at 6:30 PM, João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt> wrote:What license, if any, should we put on our man pages?I think we can just use the standard Wireshark GPLv2+ header here, with copyright to Gerald and contributors.Is the GPL an appropriate license for documentation, or would the GFDL be more appropriate? https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL For what it's worth, the Bison man page on my machine has no license on it. I don't know whether any other GNU software that comes with a man page puts a license on the man page; perhaps they don't care enough about man pages, as opposed to Texinfo documents, to bother with a license. bison.texinfo is licensed under the GFDL: https://opensource.apple.com/source/bison/bison-14/doc/bison.texinfo
The reasonable assumption is that past contributions were made under the same licensing terms as the rest of Wireshark. I'm not sure we can just slap any license on it without some effort to ask people who made significant contributions (IANAL).
See this for a practical concern about the GDFL: https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Re: checklicenses.py, (continued)
- Re: checklicenses.py Guy Harris (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py Guy Harris (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py Guy Harris (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py Guy Harris (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py Guy Harris (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py Guy Harris (Aug 08)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 06)
- Re: checklicenses.py Guy Harris (Aug 06)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 06)
- Re: checklicenses.py Michael Mann (Aug 06)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 06)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 06)
- Re: checklicenses.py João Valverde (Aug 05)