Re: Translating copyright info in --version commands?
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 15:39:33 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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.
Ok, I'm including it on the push I'm doing right now.
> 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...
Yes, as I mentioned for TUI apps, which I had already preserved on the
attached patch (in dselect/main.cc:refreshmenu()).
> > 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.
Right.
> I can prepare this part of the patch (so that you can concentrate on
> multi-arch instead).
Sure.
> 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?
Well the license should also go into the file comment header, and I
don't really see the point in duplicating it in a visible section,
which does not seem to be common either on other man pages. But if
you really really want to have it then at least it should be named
LICENSE.
regards,
guillem
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