I feel this bug is miscategorized. These man pages should not come from Mesa, for two reasons:
. not all systems use Mesa; some systems utilize the proprietary drivers, and they should be able to install these manpages as well. . Mesa is not the 'upstream' for these manpages, even if they happen to include the documents. The standards development group in this case is Khronos. Khronos provides a method to create these manapges. Thus I think this should be a new, separate package which is sourced from the Khronos documentation. Their subversion repository is: https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/ogl/trunk/ecosystem/public/sdk/docs/man and their manpages can be generated using 'docbook2x-man -N' on each XML file. The Khronos documents are (mostly) considered BSD-licensed: http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Getting_started/XML_Toolchain_and_Man_Pages#Licenses I checked this myself, however. They are actually licensed under one of either the SGI Free Software B license, or the Open Publication License: $ grep -i license *.xml | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq Free Software B License. For details, see Free Software B License. For details, see Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. The former allows basically free use as long as you don't advertise with "SGI" [1]. The latter is considered a viable Free Documentation License [2], [3] [1] http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/ [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#RealOPL [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_License So there appears to be no issue in distributing derivative works. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32042 Title: OpenGL subroutine man pages missing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/32042/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
