Re: For review: memusage(1) man page

[Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 07/22/2014 10:39 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Jan, are you willing to assign copyright for those documenation bits
> to the FSF? I'll happily convert them into texinfo.
Alfred, can you be more specific? What would it imply for me, Peter and 
man pages? Is there a problem with GPLv2+ or the copyright? What should 
be changed?
>     I must say that this is an odd position to take. While it would be
>     nice to have documentation in the glibc manual, the glibc
>     developers did not bother to add anything to the manual when
>     writing these interfaces, so it hardly seems like anyone else is
>     obligated to do so (assuming that person wanted to even jump the
>     CLA hurdle...).  In any case, man pages does (good) pages that
>     describe the libc interfaces (including commands).
>
> Someone sends a useful patch for glibc, but glibc is not documented
> using man pages so the natural thing is to have it in a format that
> can be accepted into glibc.
>
> What is odd is to dismiss such a contribution and start making excuses
> as to why one should not "bother" updating the offical, and canonical
> documentation for glibc.  And accusing people because they "couldn't
> be bothered" is quite an unfriendly attidue.  We all have things to
> do, and only have so much time to try and do everything.
Because you responded it means you don't have problems being bothered. 
Please, lets close this discussion. No need to continue.
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