Follow-up Comment #3, task #16607 (group administration):
> Man pages are rather short. Cluttering it with copyright and license
> notice is inconvinient for users to look for useful information.
I think "cluttering" could describe it if these notices were the first
text on the page and took a full screen or more; however, they are
written at the bottom and take just a few lines.
> When users type "man something", they generally do not care about
> the copying terms of the man pages; they do care if they are modifying
> and/or distributing them. Thus I believe it is more appropriate
> to put the copyright notice in the comments than in a manual section.
Freedom can't be taken for granted, and in cases like MySQL even
if programs in the packages may be free, the documentation is
proprietary. It's important to make sure that the users know
their rights.
>> the upstream Firefox and Chromium are known to have freedom issues
>
> AFAIK, the freedom issues are primarily about the Widevine DRM,
> some nonfree third party code like UnRAR, promoting or automatically
> downloading nonfree plugins, and something like that.
...
> Although a small part of their code need to be studied in order to
> understand how to process certain data (e.g. how Chromium
> calculates bookmark checksum, and how Firefox calculates URL hash),
> they are expressed in a different way.
I see, thank you!
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