hi Alejandro Apologies for the delay. Are you in touch with Michael Kerrisk? In the past we have worked with him and made a permissions grant - which outlines the terms we are able to grant — these are limited by the copyright holders. It also appeared in discussions with Michael in 2020, that he had a way to convert the source format to man page format. regards Andrew > On 17 Aug 2023, at 21:01, Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, Geoff, > > I'm the maintainer of the Linux man-pages project[1], and also of the > man-pages-posix project[2]. > > [1]: <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/> > [2]: <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix.git/> > > From those upstream projects, GNU/Linux distros distribute packages like > Debian's manpages-posix and manpages-posix-dev (in the non-free > section)[3]. > > [3]: <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/hppa/manpages-posix> > > I find it very uncomfortable to maintain the man-pages-posix project, as > I don't have access to the source code of the pages. I don't know what > agreement was reached with the previous maintainer of the project, > Michael Kerrisk, but I'd like to ask if it would be possible to open the > sources, and what conditions would be nonnegotiable for something like > that to happen. > > Ideally, I'd be able to make a fork of POSIX's git repository, and push > that fork to the kernel.org repo. Maybe POSIX requires that the pages > not be modified, or some section mentioning that the page has been > modified and is not a source of truth. > > I intend to distribute the pages as close as possible to the originals, > with little to no modification; the only kind of modifications that I > have in mind are typo fixes and formatting fixes, and use the build > system of the Linux man-pages project, but I'd keep the source code > largely untouched. > > You'd probably have a source of bug reports here too. :) > > Thanks, > > Alex > > > -- > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> > GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5 -------- Andrew Josey VP, Standards & Certification, The Open Group Email: a.josey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Apex Plaza,Forbury Road,Reading,Berks. RG1 1AX,UK. The Open Group Certifications, see https://www.opengroup.org/certifications ArchiMate, FACE logo, Making Standards Work, Open O logo, Open O and Check certification logo, OSDU, Platform 3.0, The Open Group, TOGAF, UNIX, UNIXWARE, and X logo are registered trademarks and Boundaryless Information Flow, Build with Integrity Buy with Confidence, Commercial Aviation Reference Architecture, Dependability Through Assuredness, Digital Practitioner Body of Knowledge, DPBoK, EMMM, FACE, FHIM Profile Builder, FHIM logo, FPB, Future Airborne Capability Environment, IT4IT, IT4IT logo, O-AA, O-DEF, O-HERA, O-PAS, Open Agile Architecture, Open FAIR, Open Footprint, Open Process Automation, Open Subsurface Data Universe, Open Trusted Technology Provider, Sensor Integration Simplified, SOSA, and SOSA logo are trademarks of The Open Group.
