Hi,
I'm the maintainer of the Linux man-pages, and am interested in copying
the following files from your website to the repository. I think that
alone would already be useful to our users, but the main motivation goes
beyond that. I developed a small tool to search for declarations in the
standard:
stdc89()
{
grep "[[:alpha:]] \**\b$1([[:alnum:]*,. ]*);" /path/to/c89-draft.txt \
| sort \
| uniq;
}
That will help a lot in maintaining the manual pages, and I'd like to
have the draft in the same repository so I can have that script in the
repo working for anyone who clones it. Or maybe we could even make it
part of the installation, and install the files into
<$prefix/share/doc/c/>, and some binary in <$prefix/bin>, so everybody
could then check the standard from the command line.
Oskari even had the idea of being able to diff between different
standards, which I think can be also quite useful.
My questions to you is:
- Is there any license that applies to the drafts of the standard?
Are they in the public domain or at least open-source?
- Is there any license for your .txt variants? Did you create them,
or were they picked from another source?
- I guess you don't mind if I mention you and your website as the
source of the files when I copy them, but just in case I need to ask.
Thanks!
Alex
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