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manpage .Os name: time to replace "Openwall Project" with something else? #184
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I preserved that on purpose during the mdoc conversion, to honor this project's origins in the Openwall Project. However, it might make sense to change it to "libxcrypt", as that would more clearly document the current origin of the manpage. @solardiz do you have an opinion? |
As it happens, I'm actually preparing a pull request with some edits to the man pages, prompted by the "bug" report here: https://www.openwall.com/lists/yescrypt/2024/03/21/1 |
I am thinking that a lot of the information in AUTHORS can probably go into an expanded version of |
I look forward to seeing it.
How about, as part of your PR, you change all these to
which preserves the credit but also indicates the current proximate source of the manpage. |
This is now #185. FWIW, I found the attribution to Openwall Project motivating for me to do the full proof-reading of
I sent the PR maybe a minute before you posted this comment. But I can add a commit with that change if you and @besser82 want that - let me know. |
@Artoria2e5 I don't think that information belongs in the |
libxcrypt currently says "Openwall Project" in the footer, even though (as far as I can tell) it's not really maintained or assembled together into a crypt.3 implementation by the Openwall people.
libxcrypt/doc/crypt.3
Line 18 in 72f75aa
I do see that the man page is derived from openwall crypt_rn.3. I guess nobody just bothered to change it, not even during the mdoc conversion?
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