Re: POSIX manpages
Martin Schulze wrote:
> As of version 1.65 manpages from the POSIX standard are included with
> the following copyright note:
>
> The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open Group,
> have given us permission to reprint portions of their documentation.
>
> In the following statement, the phrase ``this text'' refers to portions
> of the system documentation.
>
> Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in
> the {Product Name}, from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for
> Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX),
> The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the
> Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.
> In the event of any discrepancy between these versions and the original
> IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group
> Standard is the referee document.
> The original Standard can be obtained online at
> http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .
>
> This notice shall appear on any product containing this material.
>
> Please see <http://linuxpr.com/releases/6599.html> for an official
> announcement.
>
> I am worried about this situation since the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT
> doesn't lose a word about re-distribution, modifications and
> permission to distribute changes, neither does the press release
>
> I'm worried in particular since if the license does not conform with
> the Open Source Definition aka Debian Free Software Guidelines, which
> I fear, it would render the entire manpages package non-free. What a
> wonderful contribution to the Free Software community...
Newsflash: I've just uploaded version 1.66-1 which has all POSIX
manpages and their copyright files stripped (from the orig.tar.gz) and
a note added. Hence, technically, the orig.tar.gz is no pristine
source archive anymore.
I hope, that this way, the Debian packages can be kept in the main
distribution and don't have to be moved to non-free.
I've also sent a mail to xvendor@lists.openwall.com, so that other
vendors know about the problem as well and get a chance to react
accordingly.
Regards,
Joey
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