linux-kernel - Re: man-pages-6.14 released

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Message-ID: <20250627002011.GA431181@qaa.vinc17.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 02:20:11 +0200
From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@...c17.net>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>, "Andries E. Brouwer" <aeb@....nl>,
	linux-man@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	libc-alpha@...rceware.org
Subject: Re: man-pages-6.14 released

On 2025-06-26 19:01:24 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 6/26/25 5:04 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > The thing is, as someone else mentioned, removals happen also implicitly

This was me, there:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/u2ogua4573d2xm2p2oiuna67kydkr3e26pt6lixeidezdw34dg@nvn64na3cptt/T/#me71349fc15520d5c183311dfaf85667903c07d9d

> > by moving text from one page to another and not copying copyright
> > notices, so how much does it matter an intentional rewrite of the
> > copyright notices into a different form (but which keeps their
> > copyright, as part of the AUTHORS file), compared to an unintentional
> > removal of copyright by moving the text (these do actually remove
> > copyright, so these are the problematic ones).
> 
> Both are legally mistakes.

Mistakes, yes (as long as copyright notices are per-file).
But legally? Why?

I've always heard that a copyright notice was optional and only
informative (so, in particular, there are no requirements to have
per-file copyright notices instead of a single one for the work).

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