For once more, I forgot to press "reply to all": 2009/11/3 Saifi Khan <[email protected]>: > Hi: > > While there is a discussion happening (on another thread) in the > context of usage of mandoc, is it a good idea to review the > 'possibility of re-using POSIX specs for manual pages' ? > > the original thread is here, > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/docs/2004-01/index.html > > i've read the entire 'docs' 2003-till date archives and couldn't > figure out how the POSIX related discussion was concluded. > > What is the current understanding on this issue ?
We are already using stuff from POSIX specs, giving of course the proper attribution. E.g., http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=mq_open§ion=ANY E.g, http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=csinh§ion=ANY (all complex arithmetic functions, and perhaps other math-related functions as well) (look at the big COPYRIGHT section in the end of it). I've read the old thread you pasted. I honestly don't know whether we should explicitly be granted the right to do so or putting the COPYRIGHT section is enough. Both the examples I mentioned refer to source code that was ported from NetBSD and FreeBSD. As stupid as it may sound, do you people think that I should contact Open Group "just in case" ? Legal matters put aside, I think that we should only do it if we provide an implementation that is ~100% close to the standard _and_ we don't have the human/time resource to roll our own docs. Best regards, Stathis Kamperis
