> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:48 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Looking for man pages > > Bob McConnell wrote: > > > OK, so the first step is to convert the SUS HTML into a more usable > > format. Or do they already make the source files available? > Then verify > > and add details to the compatibility list, and finally apply the > > differences defined to the files from step one. Only the second and > > third steps require manual work. Only the second requires a lot of > > knowledge about your implementation, and it should be done > after each > > significant update anyway. > > There is a download link at the bottom of the page: > <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/download/>. > > But I think you're missing the fact that the license of this > standard is > fairly restrictive: > <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/help/terms.html > >. You're > allowed to view the standard online from their site in HTML or PDF > format, or download a personal copy for offline viewing, but that's > about it. You're not allowed to distribute your own copies of it, or > convert it to any other format and distribute copies of that, > and so on. > > I believe that one or more Linux distributions successfully > lobbied the > Open Group for a special exemption to the license so that they could > include a copy in their distro, but obviously that's not of use to us > since we're not a Linux distro. > > Brian
Ouch. I hadn't see that. Which would explain why Corinna wanted to use the TLDP version instead. But that adds the step of having to remove the Linux differences first, a significantly larger project. I will take a look at that. Thanks, Bob McConnell -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
