Is man-pages-posix redistributable?

[Christoph Erhardt <fedora@sicherha.de>]

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Hi list,

I have a question regarding the redistribution of man-pages-posix.
Prior to the 2017-a release, the POSIX_COPYRIGHT file contained the following 
paragraph:
> Redistribution of this material is permitted so long as this notice and
> the corresponding notices within each POSIX manual page are retained on
> any distribution, and the nroff source is included. Modifications to
> the text are permitted so long as any conflicts with the standard
> are clearly marked as such in the text.

In the 2017-a release, that paragraph has disappeared. I would like to clarify 
the implications of that for downstream distributions.

The Fedora project, which is known to be very strict about licensing concerns, 
sees the new licence as impermissible and has dropped the POSIX man pages as a 
consequence: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2116859

Now, Fedora's quasi-official way of dealing with such licensing issues would 
be to add the item in question to RPM Fusion's 'nonfree' package repository. I 
have opened an inclusion request:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6396

However, the discussion there has raised the question whether the contents of 
man-pages-posix are redistributable *at all* - given that the clause 
mentioning redistribution has vanished from the licence.

Could someone please clarify?

Thanks a lot,
Christoph

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