POSIX text in FreeBSD manual pages

[Simon L. Nielsen]

Hello

FYI:

The IEEE and The Open Group has granted permission to the FreeBSD
Project to incorporate material from the joint IEEE 1003.1 POSIX
standard and The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6. The standard
can be found online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

When adding text from the POSIX standard the following simple
guidelines must be followed:

The imported text must be run through the ``de-shallifying'' script,
which can be found installed on recent FreeBSD systems as
/usr/share/examples/mdoc/deshallify.sh. This script removes many of
the ``shall'' statements from the text and therefore making the text
more readable.

Each manual page which has POSIX text incorporated must have the
following text added as mdoc(7) comments after the normal license:

    Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic
    form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, Standard for Information
    Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
    Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by
    the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The
    Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version
    and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original
    IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The
    original Standard can be obtained online at
    http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

This text can be found as /usr/share/examples/mdoc/POSIX-copyright on
recent FreeBSD systems. The text and formatting from POSIX-copyright
should be used.


The above text will be added to the FreeBSD Documentation Project
Primer [1] soon (hopefully within a couple of days).  Also note that
recent, in the above text, refers to -CURRENT as a couple of minutes
ago :-).

Thanks for making this happen should go to Jacques Vidrine and Ruslan
Ermilov (at least these are the people I know who have been working on
this), I just got to do the commits and write about it :-).

[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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