Hi all, who would be capable of answering that question? Thanks, Christoph On Monday, 29 August 2022 08:14:22 CEST Christoph Erhardt wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a question regarding the redistribution of man-pages-posix. > Prior to the 2017-a release, the POSIX_COPYRIGHT file contained the > following > paragraph: > > Redistribution of this material is permitted so long as this notice and > > the corresponding notices within each POSIX manual page are retained on > > any distribution, and the nroff source is included. Modifications to > > the text are permitted so long as any conflicts with the standard > > are clearly marked as such in the text. > > In the 2017-a release, that paragraph has disappeared. I would like to > clarify the implications of that for downstream distributions. > > The Fedora project, which is known to be very strict about licensing > concerns, sees the new licence as impermissible and has dropped the POSIX > man pages as a consequence: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116859 > > Now, Fedora's quasi-official way of dealing with such licensing issues would > be to add the item in question to RPM Fusion's 'nonfree' package > repository. I have opened an inclusion request: > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6396 > > However, the discussion there has raised the question whether the contents > of man-pages-posix are redistributable *at all* - given that the clause > mentioning redistribution has vanished from the licence. > > Could someone please clarify? > > Thanks a lot, > Christoph
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