man-pages-* license tags

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Hi,

I was looking at the license tags of man-pages translations:

$ repoquery --qf "%{name}: %{license}" man-pages-*
man-pages: GPLv2+ and GPL+ and BSD and MIT and Copyright only and IEEE
man-pages-cs: GFDL and GPL+
man-pages-de: GPL+
man-pages-es: IEEE
man-pages-es-extra: IEEE
man-pages-fr: GPL+
man-pages-it: IEEE
man-pages-ja: Freely redistributable without restriction
man-pages-ko: Copyright only
man-pages-pl: GPL+
man-pages-ru: BSD and GPL+ and MIT and GFDL
man-pages-zh-CN: GFDL

and started wondering about the License inheritance from man-pages.

It seems to me since they are largely derived from the man-pages package
that the license tag for them should be very similar to or the same
as the license tag of the main man-pages package.  Or is it more subtle?

I actually jumped in and fixed -fr, -es and -it already,
but I thought I better check here first before filing bugs
to spam all the other man-pages-* owners.

Jens

[Tom Callaway]

On 11/26/2012 04:54 AM, Jens Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking at the license tags of man-pages translations:
>
> $ repoquery --qf "%{name}: %{license}" man-pages-*
> man-pages: GPLv2+ and GPL+ and BSD and MIT and Copyright only and IEEE
> man-pages-cs: GFDL and GPL+
> man-pages-de: GPL+
> man-pages-es: IEEE
> man-pages-es-extra: IEEE
> man-pages-fr: GPL+
> man-pages-it: IEEE
> man-pages-ja: Freely redistributable without restriction
> man-pages-ko: Copyright only
> man-pages-pl: GPL+
> man-pages-ru: BSD and GPL+ and MIT and GFDL
> man-pages-zh-CN: GFDL
>
> and started wondering about the License inheritance from man-pages.
>
> It seems to me since they are largely derived from the man-pages package
> that the license tag for them should be very similar to or the same
> as the license tag of the main man-pages package.  Or is it more subtle?
>
> I actually jumped in and fixed -fr, -es and -it already,
> but I thought I better check here first before filing bugs
> to spam all the other man-pages-* owners.

I'm not sure if blind inheritance of the master man-pages License tag is
correct, simply because I doubt that there is a 1:1 ratio of translated
man-pages.

That said, I would not expect to see any new licenses appear in the
translated files, except in the very rare corner case of a man-page
which has no english equivalent (and is under a new license). That
man-pages-ja License tag needs to be fixed ASAP, I thought I had killed
off all the "Freely redistributable without restriction" tags that
weren't firmware.

Definitely worthy of auditing, and I applaud you for taking this on. :)

~tom

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