Re: [PATCH v3] ioctl_tty.2: Add example how to get or set baudrate on the serial port

[Greg Kroah-Hartman via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 05:28:49PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Pali,
> 
> On 8/5/21 11:51 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > > > Also, you forgot a license for this code, that is required if you want
> > > > > people to use it...
> > > > 
> > > > Hm... I do not see any license in other manpage examples. Does not apply
> > > > for it global license defined in ioctl_tty.2 file?
> > > 
> > > That does not mean you do not need it.
> 
> I don't know what is the status of the current code examples in terms of
> licensing.
> 
> I thought I had seen an SPDX license identifier in one of them some time
> ago, but now I can't find it.
> 
> Technically, the pages have a license at the top of each file, which isn't
> printed on the rendered output (the license text doesn't require so) (see
> that text below).
> 
> If you want a different license for your example (let's say you want it BSD
> for example), I guess you could add an SPDX line at the top of the example
> for simplicity.
> 
> But if your code example adheres to the same license as the rest of the
> page, I guess you don't need to do anything in your patch.

What is the license of a man page?

What is the license of this page?

And if it is not shown in the code segment itself, that's going to be a
mess, please make it explicit, otherwise no one can ever use any of the
code examples for anything.

thanks,

greg k-h