On Aug 8, 2016, at 6:30 PM, João Valverde <joao.valverde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> What license, if any, should we put on our man pages?
>
> I think we can just use the standard Wireshark GPLv2+ header here, with copyright to Gerald and contributors.
Is the GPL an appropriate license for documentation, or would the GFDL be more appropriate?
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL
For what it's worth, the Bison man page on my machine has no license on it. I don't know whether any other GNU software that comes with a man page puts a license on the man page; perhaps they don't care enough about man pages, as opposed to Texinfo documents, to bother with a license. bison.texinfo is licensed under the GFDL:
https://opensource.apple.com/source/bison/bison-14/doc/bison.texinfo