Subj : Re: about to blow a gaske
To   : Grymmjack
From : Deuce
Date : Mon May 23 2005 01:24 pm

  Re: Re: about to blow a gaske
  By: Grymmjack to Deuce on Sat May 21 2005 13:53:00

 >  > Actually, most commercial UNIX manuals are exactly that.  Or at least the
 > 
 > fascinating.. so then the free software foundation has licensing to the man
 > pages as well.. so then hrm.. does the license cover printing documentation
 > or including documentation in a book? i wonder..
 > 
 > i wonder just how legal my copy of man(1) is.

A largish number of BSD man pages were rewritten to a void copyright issues...
most of teh ones that are applicable were lifted by Linux.  As for all the
rest, many of them are only quasi legal.  Most of the though have a BSD like
licence in their past somewhere (remember, 32V was released under a BSDish
licence too).  Generally it's stuff like the rc manpage... stuff that Linux
explicitly modeled after SysV whose manpages are stil classic SysV.  (Notice
the man page mentions a README in /etc/init... ever seen one?)

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