Legal issues with 1003.1e draft 17

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Dear Casey,

This message concerns the work you did several years back in the IEEE
1003.1e/1003.2c working group. I am very thankful to the IEEE for making
available draft 17 to the public; there are some legal questions.

Three groups would like to use text from the ACL sections of draft 17 to
base their manual pages on; I am not sure about the other sections. The
groups are:

  *  FreeBSD. Their current manual pages are available at
     <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current>.
     All ACL related manual pages are linked to from the acl(3) page.

  *  SGI's Linux XFS project. The ACL utilities package contains the
     complete set of manual pages covering everything ACL related.

  *  The bestbits Linux ACL project, which in fact uses the same
     ACL utilities package as the XFS group. Online versions of the manual
     pages are available at <http://acl.bestbits.at/man/man.shtml>.


Is there a way to get official approval from the IEEE for using part of
draft 17 in manual pages, even if it's almost in verbatim form?

I don't know if this kind of use is legal under the license draft 17 is
made available under, and would like to avoid getting into a legal
struggle with the IEEE.


Thanks a lot,

Andreas.

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 Andreas Gruenbacher, a.gruenbacher at computer.org
 Contact information: http://www.bestbits.at/~ag/



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