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Re: For review: attributes(7) man page
- From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com, Peng Haitao <penght at cn dot fujitsu dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org>, "linux-man at vger dot kernel dot org" <linux-man at vger dot kernel dot org>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:04:02 +0100
- Subject: Re: For review: attributes(7) man page
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On 10/23/2014 07:33 AM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2014, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/20/2014 07:47 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> the text of this man page is based on the material taken from
>>> the "POSIX Safety Concepts" section of the GNU C Library manual.
>
>> Shouldn't the manpage be under the GFDL, then?
>
> 'cept that we offered to license those portions under the GPL too.
Yes, and thanks for that. I'm not wanting to start any sort of debate
about the pros and cons of GFDL, but man-pages avoids GFDL because
Debian has a problem with it. (At least, late time I looked into this,
it did.)
Cheers,
Michael
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