IEEE and The Open Group grant permissions to the Linux Man Pages project

IEEE and The Open Group Okay 'Linux Manual Pages Project' to Incorporate
Material from the POSIX(R) Standard

PISCATAWAY, NJ and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 21 January 2004 The IEEE and The
Open Group have granted permission to the Linux Manual Pages Project to
incorporate material from the joint IEEE 1003.1 POSIX(R) standard and
The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 document.

This step will allow developers using the Linux manual pages to gain a
better understanding of how to write portable programs utilizing IEEE
Std 1003.1, "Standard for Information Technology-- Portable Operating
System Interface (POSIX)". The POSIX standard, which also forms the core
volumes of Version 3 of The Open Group's Single UNIX. Specification,
defines a set of fundamental services needed for the construction of
portable application programs. IEEE and The Open Group have granted
permissions for reuse of material in the Linux 'man pages' project
(see: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages) covering over 1400
interfaces from the standard including the headers, system interfaces
and utilities.


See http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/pr_linuxman.html
for the full announcement.

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