|
|
Subscribe / Log in / New account

I assume they're non-free

I assume they're non-free

Posted Jan 22, 2014 19:02 UTC (Wed) by juliank (guest, #45896)
In reply to: I assume they're non-free by coriordan
Parent article: POSIX.1-2013 man pages for Linux

WTF are you talking about? Those are direct links to the tarballs. The license is:

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 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
from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
-- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electri-
cal and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is
POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
event of any discrepancy between this version 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.unix.org/online.html .

This notice shall appear on any product containing this material.

Redistribution of this material is permitted so long as this notice and
the corresponding notices within each POSIX manual page are retained on
any distribution, and the nroff source is included. Modifications to
the text are permitted so long as any conflicts with the standard
are clearly marked as such in the text.


to post comments

Pretty free actually

Posted Jan 22, 2014 19:18 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (5 responses)

> WTF are you talking about?

The link in the story: http://www.unix.org/online.html

I click it and see: "Register to read or download the specification".

That last paragraph you quoted looks like a licence notice alright:

> Redistribution of this material is permitted so long as this notice and
> the corresponding notices within each POSIX manual page are retained on
> any distribution, and the nroff source is included. Modifications to
> the text are permitted so long as any conflicts with the standard
> are clearly marked as such in the text.

Is that the entire licence? Not just a summary?

If so, it's pretty free alright. Better than I was expecting after I saw the website. Not sure if Debian would accept it.

Pretty free actually

Posted Jan 22, 2014 20:10 UTC (Wed) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link]

Debian has non-free, in which it already has manpages-posix{,-dev}.

Pretty free actually

Posted Jan 22, 2014 20:12 UTC (Wed) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link]

Well, if you click on the online version, then yes, you must register.

But the email clearly states

"
Tarballs containing the pages can be found at
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages...
and
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages...
"

The other stuff is just the original HTML version.

Pretty free actually

Posted Jan 22, 2014 20:27 UTC (Wed) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (2 responses)

It's probably not Debian-free just like the GFDL's invariant sections aren't, but it's pretty good.

Pretty free actually

Posted Jan 22, 2014 20:35 UTC (Wed) by juliank (guest, #45896) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes. It's really the same license as the old version included in man-pages <= 2.80, AFAICT. And those are included as manpages-posix in Debian non-free.

Pretty free actually

Posted Jan 23, 2014 2:44 UTC (Thu) by mkerrisk (subscriber, #1978) [Link]

> Yes. It's really the same license as the old version
> included in man-pages <= 2.80, AFAICT.

Yes, that's correct.


Copyright © 2025, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds