Hi,

On 2025-05-09 14:28:23 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 02:14:54PM +0200, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:

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Hi Alejandro,

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I wonder about the legal status of such a change.
There is ownership of the pages, and a license that allows
others to do certain things.

I also wonder about it.  We discussed it for several (~3) months, and I
documented links to the discussion in the commit message:

commit 9f2986c34166085225bb5606ebfd4952054e1657
Author: Alejandro Colomar [off-list ref]
Date:   Fri Apr 11 02:19:48 2025 +0200

    *, CREDITS: Unify copyright notices
    
    Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/jpin2dbnp5vpitnh7l4qmvkamzq3h3xljzsznrudgioox3nn72@57uybxbe3h4p/T/#u (local)>
    Link: <https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects>

So I read this last link, and see

"Don’t change someone else’s copyright notice without their permission
You should not change or remove someone else’s copyright notice unless
they have expressly (in writing) permitted you to do so. This includes
third parties’ notices in pre-existing code."

I understood that paragraph as not changing copyright notices from
people unrelated to the project.

I don't think so. But IMHO, it would be OK to provide the old copyright
notices in an indirect way: put them in a different file and just give
a reference to this file, as long as this file is distributed together
with the man pages and can be found easily.

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