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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2010-08-19 04:13:01 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2010-08-19 04:15:42 -0700
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tar: update licenses to latest versions from www.gnu.org
* COPYING: Update to latest version; this is just minor formatting. * doc/fdl.texi: Update from GFDL 1.2 to 1.3. * doc/tar.texi: Adjust to new format of fdl.texi. Omit trailing white space.
-rw-r--r--COPYING18
-rw-r--r--doc/fdl.texi110
-rw-r--r--doc/tar.texi39
3 files changed, 108 insertions, 59 deletions
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 44325404..94a9ed02 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-
- GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- Version 3, 29 June 2007
+ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+ Version 3, 29 June 2007
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
- Preamble
+ Preamble
The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for
software and other kinds of works.
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ patents cannot be used to render the program non-free.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
modification follow.
- TERMS AND CONDITIONS
+ TERMS AND CONDITIONS
0. Definitions.
@@ -77,7 +76,7 @@ modification follow.
"Copyright" also means copyright-like laws that apply to other kinds of
works, such as semiconductor masks.
-
+
"The Program" refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this
License. Each licensee is addressed as "you". "Licensees" and
"recipients" may be individuals or organizations.
@@ -510,7 +509,7 @@ actual knowledge that, but for the patent license, your conveying the
covered work in a country, or your recipient's use of the covered work
in a country, would infringe one or more identifiable patents in that
country that you have reason to believe are valid.
-
+
If, pursuant to or in connection with a single transaction or
arrangement, you convey, or propagate by procuring conveyance of, a
covered work, and grant a patent license to some of the parties
@@ -619,9 +618,9 @@ an absolute waiver of all civil liability in connection with the
Program, unless a warranty or assumption of liability accompanies a
copy of the Program in return for a fee.
- END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
+ END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
+ How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
@@ -673,4 +672,3 @@ may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with
the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html>.
-
diff --git a/doc/fdl.texi b/doc/fdl.texi
index fe78df8d..fc19dddd 100644
--- a/doc/fdl.texi
+++ b/doc/fdl.texi
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
+@c The GNU Free Documentation License.
+@center Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
-@node GNU Free Documentation License
-@appendixsec GNU Free Documentation License
-
-@cindex FDL, GNU Free Documentation License
-@center Version 1.2, November 2002
+@c This file is intended to be included within another document,
+@c hence no sectioning command or @node.
@display
-Copyright @copyright{} 2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
+Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@uref{http://fsf.org/}
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
@@ -93,16 +92,16 @@ An image format is not Transparent if used for any substantial amount
of text. A copy that is not ``Transparent'' is called ``Opaque''.
Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
-@sc{ascii} without markup, Texinfo input format, La@TeX{} input
-format, @acronym{SGML} or @acronym{XML} using a publicly available
-@acronym{DTD}, and standard-conforming simple @acronym{HTML},
-PostScript or @acronym{PDF} designed for human modification. Examples
-of transparent image formats include @acronym{PNG}, @acronym{XCF} and
-@acronym{JPG}. Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be
-read and edited only by proprietary word processors, @acronym{SGML} or
-@acronym{XML} for which the @acronym{DTD} and/or processing tools are
-not generally available, and the machine-generated @acronym{HTML},
-PostScript or @acronym{PDF} produced by some word processors for
+ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, La@TeX{} input
+format, SGML or XML using a publicly available
+DTD, and standard-conforming simple HTML,
+PostScript or PDF designed for human modification. Examples
+of transparent image formats include PNG, XCF and
+JPG. Opaque formats include proprietary formats that can be
+read and edited only by proprietary word processors, SGML or
+XML for which the DTD and/or processing tools are
+not generally available, and the machine-generated HTML,
+PostScript or PDF produced by some word processors for
output purposes only.
The ``Title Page'' means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
@@ -112,6 +111,9 @@ formats which do not have any title page as such, ``Title Page'' means
the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
+The ``publisher'' means any person or entity that distributes copies
+of the Document to the public.
+
A section ``Entitled XYZ'' means a named subunit of the Document whose
title either is precisely XYZ or contains XYZ in parentheses following
text that translates XYZ in another language. (Here XYZ stands for a
@@ -380,13 +382,30 @@ title.
@item
TERMINATION
-You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
-as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to
-copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will
-automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
-parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
-License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
-parties remain in full compliance.
+You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document
+except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt
+otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute it is void, and
+will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
+
+However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license
+from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally,
+unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally
+terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder
+fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to
+60 days after the cessation.
+
+Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
+reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
+violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have
+received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that
+copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after
+your receipt of the notice.
+
+Termination of your rights under this section does not terminate the
+licenses of parties who have received copies or rights from you under
+this License. If your rights have been terminated and not permanently
+reinstated, receipt of a copy of some or all of the same material does
+not give you any rights to use it.
@item
FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
@@ -404,11 +423,46 @@ following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
-as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
+as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation. If the Document
+specifies that a proxy can decide which future versions of this
+License can be used, that proxy's public statement of acceptance of a
+version permanently authorizes you to choose that version for the
+Document.
+
+@item
+RELICENSING
+
+``Massive Multiauthor Collaboration Site'' (or ``MMC Site'') means any
+World Wide Web server that publishes copyrightable works and also
+provides prominent facilities for anybody to edit those works. A
+public wiki that anybody can edit is an example of such a server. A
+``Massive Multiauthor Collaboration'' (or ``MMC'') contained in the
+site means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC
+site.
+
+``CC-BY-SA'' means the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
+license published by Creative Commons Corporation, a not-for-profit
+corporation with a principal place of business in San Francisco,
+California, as well as future copyleft versions of that license
+published by that same organization.
+
+``Incorporate'' means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or
+in part, as part of another Document.
+
+An MMC is ``eligible for relicensing'' if it is licensed under this
+License, and if all works that were first published under this License
+somewhere other than this MMC, and subsequently incorporated in whole
+or in part into the MMC, (1) had no cover texts or invariant sections,
+and (2) were thus incorporated prior to November 1, 2008.
+
+The operator of an MMC Site may republish an MMC contained in the site
+under CC-BY-SA on the same site at any time before August 1, 2009,
+provided the MMC is eligible for relicensing.
+
@end enumerate
@page
-@appendixsubsec ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
+@heading ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
the License in the document and put the following copyright and
@@ -418,7 +472,7 @@ license notices just after the title page:
@group
Copyright (C) @var{year} @var{your name}.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
- under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
+ under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU
@@ -427,7 +481,7 @@ license notices just after the title page:
@end smallexample
If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover Texts,
-replace the ``with...Texts.'' line with this:
+replace the ``with@dots{}Texts.'' line with this:
@smallexample
@group
diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index 52b774cb..364d005e 100644
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -41,11 +41,12 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001,
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
-Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU Manual,''
+Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU Manual'',
and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
+is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
+License''.
(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to
copy and modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ Appendices
* Tar Internals::
* Genfile::
* Free Software Needs Free Documentation::
-* Copying This Manual::
+* GNU Free Documentation License::
* Index of Command Line Options::
* Index::
@@ -2465,7 +2466,7 @@ This option tells @command{tar} to read or write archives through
@item --check-device
Check device numbers when creating a list of modified files for
incremental archiving. This is the default. @xref{device numbers},
-for a detailed description.
+for a detailed description.
@opsummary{checkpoint}
@item --checkpoint[=@var{number}]
@@ -2928,7 +2929,7 @@ suffix. @xref{--auto-compress}. @xref{gzip}.
@item --no-check-device
Do not check device numbers when creating a list of modified files
for incremental archiving. @xref{device numbers}, for
-a detailed description.
+a detailed description.
@opsummary{no-delay-directory-restore}
@item --no-delay-directory-restore
@@ -4162,7 +4163,7 @@ Disable all warning messages.
@samp{Current %s is newer or same age}
@kwindex unknown-keyword
@cindex @samp{Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `%s'}, warning message
-@item unknown-keyword
+@item unknown-keyword
@samp{Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `%s'}
@end table
@@ -4418,7 +4419,7 @@ of those members listed, with their data modification times, owners, etc.
Other operations don't deal with these members as perfectly as you might
prefer; if you were to use @option{--extract} to extract the archive,
-only the most recently added copy of a member with the same name as
+only the most recently added copy of a member with the same name as
other members would end up in the working directory. This is because
@option{--extract} extracts an archive in the order the members appeared
in the archive; the most recently archived members will be extracted
@@ -5740,7 +5741,7 @@ or
@group
$ @kbd{tar --directory sourcedir --create --file=- . \
| tar --directory targetdir --extract --file=-}
-@end group
+@end group
@end smallexample
@noindent
@@ -5780,7 +5781,7 @@ sophisticated packages dedicated to that purpose.
Some users are enthusiastic about @code{Amanda} (The Advanced Maryland
Automatic Network Disk Archiver), a backup system developed by James
da Silva @file{jds@@cs.umd.edu} and available on many Unix systems.
-This is free software, and it is available from @uref{http://www.amanda.org}.
+This is free software, and it is available from @uref{http://www.amanda.org}.
@FIXME{
@@ -6022,7 +6023,7 @@ Use device numbers when preparing a list of changed files
for an incremental dump. This is the default behavior. The purpose
of this option is to undo the effect of the @option{--no-check-device}
if it was given in @env{TAR_OPTIONS} environment variable
-(@pxref{TAR_OPTIONS}).
+(@pxref{TAR_OPTIONS}).
@end table
There is also another way to cope with changing device numbers. It is
@@ -8692,7 +8693,7 @@ switch to @samp{posix}.
a wide variety of compression programs, namely: @command{gzip},
@command{bzip2}, @command{lzip}, @command{lzma}, @command{lzop},
@command{xz} and traditional @command{compress}. The latter is
-supported mostly for backward compatibility, and we recommend
+supported mostly for backward compatibility, and we recommend
against using it, because it is by far less effective than the other
compression programs@footnote{It also had patent problems in the past.}.
@@ -8702,7 +8703,7 @@ commands. The compression option is @option{-z} (@option{--gzip}) to
create a @command{gzip} compressed archive, @option{-j}
(@option{--bzip2}) to create a @command{bzip2} compressed archive,
@option{--lzip} to create an @asis{lzip} compressed archive,
-@option{-J} (@option{--xz}) to create an @asis{XZ} archive,
+@option{-J} (@option{--xz}) to create an @asis{XZ} archive,
@option{--lzma} to create an @asis{LZMA} compressed
archive, @option{--lzop} to create an @asis{LSOP} archive, and
@option{-Z} (@option{--compress}) to use @command{compress} program.
@@ -8829,7 +8830,7 @@ compressor names along with each of these options.
You can use any of these options on physical devices (tape drives,
etc.) and remote files as well as on normal files; data to or from
such devices or remote files is reblocked by another copy of the
-@command{tar} program to enforce the specified (or default) record
+@command{tar} program to enforce the specified (or default) record
size. The default compression parameters are used. Most compression
programs allow to override these by setting a program-specific
environment variable. For example, when using @command{gzip} you can
@@ -9019,7 +9020,7 @@ $ @kbd{tar --help | grep -- --bzip2}
-j, --bzip2 filter the archive through lbzip2
@end group
@end smallexample
-
+
@noindent
which means that running @command{tar --bzip2} will invoke @command{lbzip2}.
@@ -12040,12 +12041,8 @@ Right margin of the text output. Used for wrapping.
@appendix Free Software Needs Free Documentation
@include freemanuals.texi
-@node Copying This Manual
-@appendix Copying This Manual
-
-@menu
-* GNU Free Documentation License:: License for copying this manual
-@end menu
+@node GNU Free Documentation License
+@appendix GNU Free Documentation License
@include fdl.texi