Bonnie Corwin writes: > > Is there any plan to clean up the eratz advertising that is currenting > > in the man pages? > > This is not advertising. It is attribution and/or verbatim use of > third-party man pages. > > Remember that man pages are also source files. When we use third-party > man pages or take information from third-party sources, we must > explicitly cite the attribution in/for those sources. That's what > you're seeing in these kinds of pages.
I was referring to having _Sun_ insert random licensing goop from the underlying software into the man page, not preserving pass-through pages. I agree (obviously) that where we ship somebody else's written materials (including man pages), we need to preserve this sort of information. It's much less clear to me whether Sun-written man pages ought to have that sort of licensing/disclaimer language just because the source itself does. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
