Re: Re: [Groff] groff documentation

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

*sigh* My Emacs macros change my From: address when they find anybody
from the FreeBSD project on the To: or Cc:, so this is currently
awaiting moderator approval.  Sorry about that.

Greg

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> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:30:11 +1030
> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <address@hidden>
> To: Larry McVoy <address@hidden>
> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <address@hidden>, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>,
>       address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Groff] groff documentation
>
> On Sunday,  1 December 2002 at  7:49:02 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> I have the BSD based source to all the troff stuff:
>>
>> 01.begin/  08.mh/        15.vi/        22.memacros/  29.refer/    DONE
>> 02.learn/  09.newsread/  16.ex/        23.meref/     30.invert/   SCCS/
>> 03.shell/  10.etiq/      17.jove/      24.troff/     31.bib/      grap.ps
>> 04.csh/    11.notes/     18.sed/       25.trofftut/  32.diction/  title
>> 05.dc/     12.edtut/     19.awk/       26.eqn/       33.rogue/
>> 06.bc/     13.edadv/     20.msmacros/  27.eqnguide/  34.trek/
>> 07.Mail/   14.edit/      21.msdiffs/   28.tbl/       99.pic/
>>
>> 99.pic is Raymond's rewrite.
>>
>> I'm wondering if we could get a project going to transfer the groff
>> extensions to this baseline so we could have an up to date version
>> of the docs written in *roff.  I've always found it weird that groff
>> docs aren't in roff, seems a bit lame.
>>
>> I have to dig through my mail to make sure it's legal (I discussed this
>> with Dennis and Brian and I think got an OK) but I suspect it's fine,
>> the date on these is old enough that copyright protection has long
>> since expired.
>
> I think you'll find that these files are under the same license as the
> rest of Research UNIX.  This license most definitely has not expired.
> It belongs to SCO (no, sorry, Caldera (no, sorry, SCO after all)).
> Earlier this year it was changed to be a BSD-style license, so it's
> definitely OK.  The only thing that worries me is that SCO doesn't
> have anything about the license on their web site.
>
> Greg
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