Re: [Groff] groff documentation

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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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