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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2017-08-20 16:20:54 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20170820162054-jwig602syxx2k4l0
Alter copyright notices slightly.  Actual license is unchanged!

This alters all copyright notices to use the Free Software
Foundation's recommendations for license notices; from
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html>:

  For programs that are more than one file, it is better to replace
  “this program” with the name of the program, and begin the statement
  with a line saying “This file is part of NAME”.

* DBUS-API: Use program name "Mandos" explicitly in license notice.
* debian/copyright: - '' -
* initramfs-unpack: - '' -
* legalnotice.xml: - '' -
* mandos: - '' -
* mandos-ctl: - '' -
* mandos-keygen: - '' -
* mandos-monitor: - '' -
* plugin-helpers/mandos-client-iprouteadddel.c: - '' -
* plugin-runner.c: - '' -
* plugins.d/askpass-fifo.c: - '' -
* plugins.d/mandos-client.c: - '' -
* plugins.d/password-prompt.c: - '' -
* plugins.d/plymouth.c: - '' -
* plugins.d/splashy.c: - '' -
* plugins.d/usplash.c: - '' -

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "plugin-runner">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-04">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2017-02-23">
 
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
 
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%common;
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <!-- Nwalsh’s docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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    <productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
 
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    <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
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    <date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
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    <authorgroup>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
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      </author>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
 
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      <year>2010</year>
 
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      <year>2011</year>
 
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      <year>2012</year>
 
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      <year>2015</year>
 
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      <year>2016</year>
 
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      <year>2017</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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    <xi:include href="legalnotice.xml"/>
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  <refmeta>
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    <refentrytitle>&COMMANDNAME;</refentrytitle>
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    <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
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      Run Mandos plugins, pass data from first to succeed.
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  <refsynopsisdiv>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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