Re: man-pages-6.14 released

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

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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