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Re: section 2 man pages


On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:05:17PM -0500, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> From: Eric Blake
>> On 07/23/2010 07:19 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> > Are section 2 man pages available?
>> 
>> Not at the moment.  Volunteers welcome to help provide them.
>> Meanwhile,
>> I find that the POSIX specification is good enough (at least, for using
>> interfaces portably):
>> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/write.html
>
>Hmm, I'd have thought they'd come downstream like so much else. Since 
>all this stuff is open source,  I wouldn't think that there should be 
>any plagiarizing issues, right?  I see,  however, that the referenced 
>web page is copyrighted.  So, I wonder who is responsible if a volun-
>teer plagiarizes another source for Cygwin.   I'm thinking some rules 
>ought to be promulgated before volunteers are solicited.

Cygwin's licensing should be fairly clear.  And you'd have to check with
the licensing of something like the above to see if it *can* be copied.

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