Hi Bernd,
You've added .FONT to
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/tmac/an-ext.tmac which
starts off by saying
.\" Written by Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com>
.\" Werner Lemberg <w...@gnu.org>
.\"
.\" Version 2012-Mar-05
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 2007, 2009, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
.\"
.\"
.\" The code below provides extension macros for the `man' macro package.
.\" Care has been taken to make the code portable; groff extensions are
.\" properly hidden so that all troff implementations can use it without
.\" changes.
.\"
.\" With groff, this file is sourced by the `man' macro package itself.
.\" Man page authors who are concerned about portability might add the
.\" used macros directly to the prologue of the man page(s).
.
.
.\" Convention: Auxiliary macros and registers start with `m' followed
.\" by an uppercase letter or digit.
However, .FONT is not portable code, groff extensions are not hidden,
and auxiliaries don't match /^m[A-Z0-9]/.
> > Finally, the functionality you propose is completely pointless.
>
> Forget it, keep being dull and controlled by voices in the brain.
Ingo's right that .FONT isn't needed. There doesn't seem to be a
relevant argument from you that it is.
> > > Put under GPL2 and reorder groff_man.man.
>
> > You are not the author.
>
> But I am also an author for this man page, not the only one.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/log/tmac/groff_man.man really
doesn't suggest you've carte blanche to change its licence.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/tmac/groff_man.man?id=309660d6de892de92c9b4b89c160cb4e4606736b
starts by saying the Copyright is with the FSF. The old permissions
differ quite a bit from GPLv2 and I don't see why they should change,
and why you should change them without seeking consensus first.
Licencing tends to be a prickily subject! :-)
(Also, I find the patch too large for that file. It mixes a licence
change, source-formatting changes like taking out lines of just "." and
adding some in elsewhere, and the re-ordering, which looks large in a
diff. It would be easier for others to read and vet if it was several
small logical patches.)
Cheers, Ralph.
