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commit 89ef971cbd3f7af392a59c83bbf7821713c4f750
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 29 22:47:49 2025 -0600
LICENSES: Further clarify doc/man page licensing.
---
LICENSES | 20 ++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/LICENSES b/LICENSES
index 1398073bd..a2e1847d5 100644
--- a/LICENSES
+++ b/LICENSES
@@ -26,12 +26,20 @@ comprising it have largely been assigned to the FSF. (Some
contributors
have not assigned copyright.) Information on GNU and the FSF may be
found at <https://www.fsf.org/>.
-The GNU troff manual, doc/groff.texi, written in Texinfo, is
-dual-licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) _and_ the
-GNU GPL. This status is to honor the intentions of its authors and to
-permit frictionless migration of material between that manual and
-groff's man pages, which are under the GPL as noted above. Find a copy
-of the FDL in the file "FDL".
+The GNU troff manual, doc/groff.texi, written in Texinfo, is licensed
+under the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), and by dint of the
+notice above is also distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 or
+later. This status is to honor the intentions of its authors and to
+permit frictionless migration of material between that manual and man
+pages documenting the formatter and related topics; see below. Find a
+copy of the FDL in the file "FDL".
+
+groff man pages documenting the formatter, its associated file formats,
+and the groff(1) program are also licensed under the FDL (and
+distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 or later). Most other man
+pages provided by the groff project are licensed under the traditional
+GNU documentation license, also known as the "LaTeX 2e license". See
+<https://spdx.org/licenses/Latex2e.html>.
Files in the contrib/ subdirectory of the source distribution are not
strictly part of groff. That is, they are distributed with it and are
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