Re: mandoc.css license

[Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>]

Hi Mark,

Mark Harris wrote on Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 08:43:58AM -0800:

> The LICENSE file mentions "all code and documentation contained
> in the mandoc toolkit" so that was the reason for trying to guess
> whether this CSS file was "code".

I see.  The LICENSE file only used that wording in the following
context, though:

  With the exceptions noted below, all code and documentation
  contained in the mandoc toolkit is protected by the Copyright
  of the following developers:

So even if CSS weren't code (i think it is), that would only have
left the authorship / ownership of Copyright of mandoc.css unstated,
the sentence

  The mandoc distribution as a whole is distributed by its developers
  under the following license:

does not have any such qualification.

But i see how the wording could make people ponder unintended subtleties,
so i simplified the wording with the commit below.

Yours,
  Ingo


Log Message:
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Mark Harris pointed out that people might have doubts whether all files
contained in the mandoc toolkit are "code and documentation", and whether
this is of any consequence for licensing, so clarify.

Modified Files:
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    mandoc:
        LICENSE

Revision Data
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Index: LICENSE
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mandoc/mandoc/LICENSE,v
retrieving revision 1.20
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -LLICENSE -LLICENSE -u -p -r1.20 -r1.21
--- LICENSE
+++ LICENSE
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 $Id$
 
-With the exceptions noted below, all code and documentation
-contained in the mandoc toolkit is protected by the Copyright
-of the following developers:
+With the exceptions noted below, all non-trivial files contained
+in the mandoc toolkit are protected by the Copyright of the following
+developers:
 
 Copyright (c) 2008-2012, 2014 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 Copyright (c) 2010-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Copyright (c) 2004 Ted Unangst <tedu@ope
 Copyright (c) 1994 Christos Zoulas <christos@netbsd.org>
 Copyright (c) 2003, 2007, 2008, 2014 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org>
 
-See the individual source files for information about who contributed
+See the individual files for information about who contributed
 to which file during which years.
 
 
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