illumos gate

Is it ok to just copy/paste (scripted, where it's possible) the CDDL license text (not touching copyright stuff, of course) or should every file be edited manually?

I believe Rich Lowe has an automated way to do this.
(I already set him as a "watcher" of this:)

When I wrote the code to fix the pages, Garrett was very much against flowing either the license or Sun copyright on any page.

It would be trivial to script this correctly, but you should run it by Garrett to avoid wasting effort.

Garrett, I want to do this as part of another issue (#1502), so the question is... should it be done at all?

I believe there was concern about whether reformatting the CDDL text might somehow have legal effect. I asked a lawyer friend about this and was told that line breaks and format have no bearing on a document's legal interpretation except for references to specific clauses which are generally paragraphs, and certain consumer-protection rules about minimum sizes for small print. Hope that helps.

Thanks Gordon, though your answer made the issue even more cryptic for me :-)

To be clear, I'm convinced that reflowing license text is fine. We do need to be careful to preserve any whitespace associated with paragraph boundaries though.

I'd like to see this move forward, especially Yuri's other changes to switch to mdocml. Having the ability to use mdoc in man pages would be a huge boon.