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Re: system call documentation [license question]

To: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: system call documentation [license question]
From: Andreas Gruenbacher <ag@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:40:39 +0100 (CET)
Cc: <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx>, <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <1044199525.1372.8.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 2 Feb 2003, Stephen  Lord wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 10:45, Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx wrote:
> >     [...]
> >
> >     *xattr* man pages are in the XFS tree and Andreas Gruenbacher's site,
> >     contents forwarded under separate copy.
> >
> >     getxattr.2:    getxattr, lgetxattr, fgetxattr2
> >     listxattr.2:    listxattr, llistxattr, flistxattr
> >     removexattr.2:    removexattr, lremovexattr, fremovexattr
> >     setxattr.2:    setxattr, lsetxattr, fsetxattr
> >
> > Good. Thanks!
> >
> > However,
> >
> > .\" (C) Andreas Gruenbacher, February 2001
> > .\" (C) Silicon Graphics Inc, September 2001
> >
> > there is no indication that redistribution (of possibly modified
> > copies) is permitted.
> >
> > Andries
>
> There should be no problem with redistribution, I can probably get
> someone to update them soon. I presume Andreas will also have no
> problems with this.

The man pages are intended to be GPL licensed, while libacl (and libattr)
was originally intended to be under LGPL. I have been quite lazy on
putting that right into the package. I assume that nobody has any
objections. Maybe someone wants to add that information to the CVS?


Regards,
Andreas.


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