On Friday 06 August 2021 09:22:59 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:

Hi Greg, Pali,

Hi GregOn 8/5/21 7:54 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

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What is the license of this page?

.../linux/man-pages$ head -n8 man2/ioctl_tty.2
.\" Copyright 2002 Walter Harms [off-list ref]
.\" and Andries Brouwer [off-list ref].
.\"
.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPL_NOVERSION_ONELINE)
.\" Distributed under GPL

What version of GPL?

I don't know :/
Maybe v1...

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.\" %%%LICENSE_END
.\"
.TH IOCTL_TTY 2 2021-03-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"

I'm don't know what GPL_NOVERSION_ONLINE is at all.

I would recommend adding proper SPDX markings to all of these files.
Even better, work to make the whole repo REUSE compliant which means
that there is no ambuiguity here.

Agree.  If Michael has no problems with that, I'll add it to my TODO list.

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But, the above license does not show up on the code in the original
example here, and that needs to be present if anyone wants this to be
used.

Yup.

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Still, if the code is going to have a different license than the rest of the
page, it could perfectly have an SPDX comment in the first line of the
example program.

Even if it is different, it should still be present as no one can see
the license of a man page "easily" when reading the documentation
through normal tools.

Yup.

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thanks,

greg k-h

Pali,

If you want to specify a specific license for your code, add 2 SPDX lines
according to REUSE <https://reuse.software/>.  If not, I'll assume that you
don't care, and when I fix the pages to show the license (which in this case
I'm not sure which one will be, maybe GPLv1) your code will use that same
license.  I'll take care of any necessary adjustments such as providing  the
license text in the repository; you don't need to do that.

Just do not complicate it and use same license as for other manpages or
examples.

Cheers,

Alex


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