On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 05:28:49PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:

Hi Pali,

On 8/5/21 11:51 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:

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Also, you forgot a license for this code, that is required if you want
people to use it...

Hm... I do not see any license in other manpage examples. Does not apply
for it global license defined in ioctl_tty.2 file?

That does not mean you do not need it.

I don't know what is the status of the current code examples in terms of
licensing.

I thought I had seen an SPDX license identifier in one of them some time
ago, but now I can't find it.

Technically, the pages have a license at the top of each file, which isn't
printed on the rendered output (the license text doesn't require so) (see
that text below).

If you want a different license for your example (let's say you want it BSD
for example), I guess you could add an SPDX line at the top of the example
for simplicity.

But if your code example adheres to the same license as the rest of the
page, I guess you don't need to do anything in your patch.

What is the license of a man page?

What is the license of this page?

And if it is not shown in the code segment itself, that's going to be a
mess, please make it explicit, otherwise no one can ever use any of the
code examples for anything.

thanks,

greg k-h