[PATCH libX11] specs: handle multiple sets of copyright notice/license/warranty

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Sep 16 14:46:26 PDT 2011


Looks good to me - thanks for sending the html output to see the result.

Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>

On 09/16/11 08:36, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> Docbook groups all the<copyright>  elements together and all the
> <legalnotice>  elements together.
>
> We cannot have a sequence:
> <copyright>  <legalnotice>  <copyright>  <legalnotice>  [...]
>
> A workaround, which was done in some documents, is to put the copyright
> notice inside the legalnotice in plain text without the<copyright>  element.
> A formal paragraph title is added here which makes the copyright notice bold,
> and makes it much easier to locate.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Nadon<memsize at videotron.ca>
> ---
> 	We cannot identify which part belongs to which copyright holder.
> 	Does not that make the doc dual-licensed where derivative work can
> 	select the license they which to use?
>
>   specs/libX11/libX11.xml |   14 ++++++--------
>   1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/specs/libX11/libX11.xml b/specs/libX11/libX11.xml
> index 30d73b8..782c14f 100644
> --- a/specs/libX11/libX11.xml
> +++ b/specs/libX11/libX11.xml
> @@ -60,17 +60,12 @@
>            <affiliation><orgname>Fujitsu OSSI</orgname></affiliation>
>         </othercredit>
>      </authorgroup>
> -<copyright><year>1985</year><year>1986</year><year>1987</year>
> -<year>1988</year><year>1989</year><year>1991</year><year>1994</year>
> -<year>1996</year><year>2002</year><holder>The Open Group</holder>
> -</copyright>
> -<copyright><year>1985</year><year>1986</year><year>1987</year>
> -<year>1988</year><year>1989</year><year>1991</year>
> -<holder>Digital Equipment Corporation</holder>
> -</copyright>
>
>   <legalnotice>
>
> +<formalpara>
> +<title>Copyright © 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2002 The Open Group</title>
> +<para></para></formalpara>
>   <para>
>   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
>   of this software and associated documentation files
> @@ -102,6 +97,9 @@ be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings
>   in this Software without prior written authorization from The Open Group.
>   </para>
>
> +<formalpara>
> +<title>Copyright © 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991 Digital Equipment Corporation</title>
> +<para></para></formalpara>
>   <para>
>   Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this documentation for any
>   purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright


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