On 2023-09-13 10:15, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Hi Andrew,
[I reordered your answer for my response.]
On 2023-09-05 14:34, Andrew Josey wrote:
hi Alejandro
Apologies for the delay.
NP
Are you in touch with Michael Kerrisk?
Nope.
It also appeared in discussions with Michael in 2020, that he had a way to convert the source format to man page format.
Yep, this is probably "the way":
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix.git/tree/posix.py>
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.
I understand. Would it be possible to suggest the copyright holders opening a
little bit more? The C++ standard seems to be more open (it has a public git
repository with the source of the drafts) [1]. Maybe POSIX could do something
similar? It would make contributions to the man-pages-posix project easier,
as contributors would be able to test the script with the original sources;
instead of just blindly trying something, and asking the maintainer to try it
with the secret sources.
[1]: <https://github.com/cplusplus/draft>
Hi Alex,
Perhaps you could request terms allowing you to maintain your own downstream
repo(s) of the *generated* man pages, as you do of the linux man pages @
alejandro-colomar.es & git.kernel.org?
There would need to be a COPYRIGHT/COLOPHON disclaimer about content issues to
be addressed to the Austin Group, and man page formatting issues to a posix-man
list, if they are or you want to keep them separate, and kernel.org is agreeable
to hosting a vger./lore.kernel.org posix-man list and git.kernel.org repo?
There are unlikely to be man page changes issued between releases (or released
between issues?).
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