importing mans from others OSes

[Harald Servat]

Hello,

  I've recently used the call backtrace[1] from the libexec (found in
/usr/local/lib) library and I've found it very useful.
  As it does not have (nor their relatives) a manual entry, I wondered if I
could submit one for it. I'm not very skilled on writing manual
documentation, and I've never submitted anything to FreeBSD but a port, but
I'd like to try.

  As I have access to a Linux machine that has this manual entry[2], I
wondered if I could use it as a base (or maybe copying it). However, as I
don't want to start a BSD-License vs GPL-license war, I just want to know if
it's permitted importing (using as a base, copying, ... or other
possibilities that do not come into my mind right now) manual files from
other OSes to FreeBSD.

Regards and thank you.

PS  Googling around, I've also seen that MacOSX has this manual entry[3],
but it's not as good as [2]. Being MacOSX BSD-based, is the situation better
to import it?

[1] http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/glibc/libc_665.html
[2] http://linuxcertif.com/man/3/backtrace/
[3]
http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/backtrace_symbols.3.html
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