Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc/distrib/notes
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: source-changes
Date: 06/15/2002 17:25:22
On Sat Jun 15 2002 at 23:15:16 +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> >> 	at least, all ARCH/legal are separated by .It.  we need to be
> >> 	consistent (either with .It or without .It).  my personal preference
> >> 	is in with .It, as the formatted output is simply unparsable without
> >> 	.It.
> >(BTW, I removed .Pp from macppc/legal recently to sync legal.common..)
> >I would like without .It (or .Pp) because some people who depricate
> >the advertising clause always complain that our legal mumbojumbo
> >takes much more lines, and it does not have to be parsable anyway.
> 
> 	but as we use code with 4-clause BSD copyright, we have to display
> 	it in our documents, and i think "to display" implies "parsable".

I disagree, I dont' think anyone cares about the 3rd clause mumbojumbo.
Besides, without .It, it's parsable, you just have to parse it a bit
harder. If there were a few lines, I'd agree, but with all these
"developed by Joe D. Random for Whoknowswhat" lines, the content sucks
already ;)

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Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>                     Of course he runs NetBSD
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