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Re: license change for POSIX manpages



* Josh Triplett:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Josh Triplett:
>>>One other issue: does "and the nroff source is included" mean that if I
>>>want to hand someone a printed copy of a manual page, I have to either
>>>print the nroff source or supply it on an attached disk?  This seems
>>>onerous for physical distribution.
>> 
>> This is what happens if you apply the GPL to documentation, and it
>> seems to be considered acceptable.
>
> The GPL has an option for just providing an offer to provide source on
> request.

"to give any third party", this fails the Desert Island (or some
variant of it) test.

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