X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:28:40 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: section 2 man pages Message-ID: <20100724092840.GK8324@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C499A0B.3060508@redhat.com> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F201273096@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <20100723213301.GA11099@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100723213301.GA11099@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Jul 23 17:33, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:05:17PM -0500, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > >> From: Eric Blake > >> On 07/23/2010 07:19 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > >> > Are section 2 man pages available? > >> > >> Not at the moment. Volunteers welcome to help provide them. > >> Meanwhile, > >> I find that the POSIX specification is good enough (at least, for using > >> interfaces portably): > >> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/write.html > > > >Hmm, I'd have thought they'd come downstream like so much else. Since > >all this stuff is open source, I wouldn't think that there should be > >any plagiarizing issues, right? I see, however, that the referenced > >web page is copyrighted. So, I wonder who is responsible if a volun- > >teer plagiarizes another source for Cygwin. I'm thinking some rules > >ought to be promulgated before volunteers are solicited. > > Cygwin's licensing should be fairly clear. And you'd have to check with > the licensing of something like the above to see if it *can* be copied. The Linux man pages (http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/) would make a good start. They can't be used unchanged, but it's far less work to tweak them for Cygwin than to write them from scratch. No worries license-wise. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple