Hi, On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Guillem Jover wrote: > So my preferred solution would be to just get rid of those strings > altogether, if someone wants to see the copyright, they should check > the source code. I've had a patch around to do just that (attached), > but I've not applied it more out of courtesy than anything else.
Go ahead, it's fine with me. However someone referred me to section 2.c of GPL-2 which says that we have to add/keep such messages for interactive applications so maybe we should keep them for dselect only... > To me the same applies to man pages, but I left those alone at the > time. I have no objection to do the same on the manual pages. In fact, it was never very clear whether the copyright/authors sections of the manual page documented the authors of the program or the authors of the manual page itself. I can prepare this part of the patch (so that you can concentrate on multi-arch instead). Let's just agree on what we want to keep. I suggest to have this single section at the end of every manual page: ---- .SH COPYRIGHT This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or later for copying conditions. There is NO WARRANTY. ---- Do you want anything else in this boilerplate section? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
