On Tuesday 08 June 2004 16:49, Ian Zagorskih wrote:

> From published news:
> 
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7242
> http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20040601006150&newsLang=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view
> 
> ---cut---
> PISCATAWAY, N.J. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2004--The IEEE and 
> The Open Group have granted permission to the FreeBSD Project to incorporate 
> material from the joint IEEE 1003.1(TM) POSIX(R) standard and The Open Group 
> Base Specifications Issue 6. 
> 
>  This step will allow developers of the FreeBSD Platform to gain a better 
> understanding of how to write portable programs utilizing IEEE 1003.1, 
> "Standard for Information Technology: Portable Operating System Interface 
> (POSIX)". The POSIX standard, which also forms the core volumes of Version 3 
> of The Open Group's Single UNIX(R) Specification, defines a set of 
> fundamental services needed for the construction of portable application 
> programs. IEEE and The Open Group have granted permissions for reuse of 
> material covering over 1400 interfaces from the standard including the 
> headers, system interfaces and utilities. 
> ---cut---
> 
> I'm just curious what exactly does this statement mean ?

This means that the FreeBSD Project has been granted permission to
incorporate material from the standard [in their documentation],
just like is said in the very first sentence.

No need to get excited about this news item either; it's the third
time this was granted to an OSS project in 2004 already.


- Klaus