On 10/23/2014 07:33 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Oct 20, 2014, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 10/20/2014 07:47 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> the text of this man page is based on the material taken from >>> the "POSIX Safety Concepts" section of the GNU C Library manual. > >> Shouldn't the manpage be under the GFDL, then? > > 'cept that we offered to license those portions under the GPL too. Yes, and thanks for that. I'm not wanting to start any sort of debate about the pros and cons of GFDL, but man-pages avoids GFDL because Debian has a problem with it. (At least, late time I looked into this, it did.) Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html