Hi, we (The Debian Project) would like to clarify the license situation[1] of the collection of alt.sysadmin.recovery man pages as seen on https://sources.debian.net/src/asr-manpages/latest and originally available at ftp://ftp.winternet.com/users/eric/asr.pages.tar.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/774931 We hence would be happy if you (as one of the authors) could state the license for the man pages authored by you: - c - Nick Williams <ni...@iname.com> - lart - Tim Bandy <tim...@risk.cs.umn.edu> - slave - Ingvar Mattsson - sysadmin - Abby Franquemont-Guillory <abb...@tezcat.com> - think - John Guthrie <guth...@math.upenn.edu> - whack - Eric L. Pederson <e...@winternet.com> - people - Ingvar Mattsson - chastise - Ingvar Mattsson - normality - Ingvar Mattsson - bosskill - Eric L. Pederson <e...@winternet.com> - ctluser - Simon Burr <si...@tcp.co.uk> - guru - unknown author <u...@foo.com> - knife - Kurt Hockenbury <k...@something.com> - luser - Eric L. Pederson <e...@winternet.com> - nuke - Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> - pmsd - Eric L. Pederson <e...@winternet.com> In case there is no license yet and you don't have an idea which license to choose, feel free to have a look at the list of OSI-approved free software licenses[2]. [2] http://opensource.org/licenses If this seems still too much hassles for you, you may be happy with the very simple, clear and short license named "DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE"[3]. :-) [3] http://www.wtfpl.net/about/, http://wtfpl.org/ If your legislation allows it, you can of course also state that you dedicate your work on the according man page to the public domain[4]. [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#Dedicating_works_to_the_public_domain It would be nice, if you could at least Cc the according Debian bug report <774...@bugs.debian.org> so that your license statement is publicly documented. (If you use PGP or GnuPG, a signed mail would be even better!) We also would be happy if anyone knows the author of the "guru" man page. I don't know if "unknown author <u...@foo.com>" is a pseudonym (with a no more valid e-mail address), or if this is just a dummy entry. Writing to the Admin-C of foo.com for that reason, too. (And yes, I know[5] about RFC 2606.) [5] http://noone.org/rfc2606-ignorant/ Regards and thanks in advance, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
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