Doug, > Sun Microsystems, Inc. has reached agreement with The Institute of > Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and The Open Group (TOG) > that allows Sun to deliver those sections of the SunOS Reference Manual > (man pages) that contain portions of specifications copyrighted by these > two organizations into the OpenSolaris 2008.11 release. We very much > appreciate IEEE and TOG for their cooperation in our effort to expand > the scope of the documentation we are able to provide to the OpenSolaris > community. > > This agreement covers man pages that document more than 700 of the most > commonly used user commands and library routines. The OpenSolaris > community has repeatedly asked that these pages be included, and we are > happy to announce that we can now provide them to the community. > > The inclusion of these man pages brings the total number of man pages in > OpenSolaris to more than 5500, or 95 per cent of all man pages in the > SunOS Reference Manual. We are working diligently to include the > remaining pages as soon as possible.
Excellent news! Major creds to all who have been pushing hard. Regards... Sean.
