Mark Valentine wrote:
>>From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
>>Date: Sat 31 Jan, 2004
>>Subject: Re: possibility of re-using POSIX specs for manual pages
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>>-On [20040131 00:52], Mark Valentine (mark@valentine.me.uk) wrote:
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>>>However, being able to just use portions of the text verbatim (with
>>>the appropriate notice), e.g. when aligning something with the standard,
>>>does save re-inventing the wheel and risking imperfect paraphrasing...
>>
>>Does the notice have to be place in the AUTHORS section? And how big is
>>it?
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> Whoever follows up with the IEEE (Hiten seemed to be on the ball) will
> presumably find out the precise requirements; all I can say is that they
> didn't look too burdensome judging by what the Linux folks have released.
Guys, hold your horses for now. :-) I am gonna get in contact
with Jacques Vidrine (nectar@) of Camp FreeBSD and coordinate
this stuff with him.
Regards,
-- Hiten