need a man page rewritten
Marcus Watts
> To: mi...@openbsd.org
> Subject: need a man page rewritten
> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:32:05 -0700
> From: Theo de Raadt <der...@cvs.openbsd.org>
> X-Loop: mi...@openbsd.org
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> Sender: owner...@openbsd.org
>
> Anyone got some time and the skills to do this?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> CVSROOT: /cvs
> Module name: src
> Changes by: der...@cvs.openbsd.org 2003/03/08 18:19:34
>
> Modified files:
> share/man/man4 : Makefile
> Removed files:
> share/man/man4 : tun.4
>
> Log message:
> der Mouse, ie. "Mike Parker", adamantly refuses to let us put his real
> name on a copyright notice, therefore legally this file is not free
> software. Mike thinks I am rude for saying that a non-legal license
> is not free software. Well, I am sorry, but legally we *must* remove
> it. I can't believe how IRC some people are...
> Anyone want to step up and write a free replacement for this page? If
> you can write a free replacement in a day or so, that would be awesome.
I'll see if I can hack something together fast, but I won't be
disappointed if somebody beats me with something better.
Fascinating. If I understand this right, the alternate text "control
interface" described in Parker's man page doesn't exist in openbsd.
At least in the US, Parker could get a "dba" and use that in a
copyright statement. I'm not sure what it takes to put something in
the public domain today; perhaps Parker is thinking of an older state
of copyright law where things that did not have explicit copyright
statements were presumed to be "free" and in the public domain.
Nowadays, it's absolutely correct that if there's no statement, the
author retains a copyright and full rights, and distributing such
without explicit legal permission from the author would be quite
risky.
-Marcus
Matthew Weigel
> interface" described in Parker's man page doesn't exist in openbsd.
Yeah. An update would be a good thing anyway :-)
--
Matthew Weigel
Research Systems Programmer
mcwe...@cs.cmu.edu
Alec Skelly
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