On 9/20/25 9:27 AM, Sam James wrote:
Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes:
Hi!
GNU coreutils manual pages are to some degree incomplete. I was told
today that "tsort(1) is a bad joke". I wonder if you'd be interested in
moving the maintenance of the manual pages of GNU coreutils to the Linux
man-pages project, where I could take care of them, and improve their
contents.
I understand GNU's stance on manual pages, and that you might not be
interested in improving them much, but maybe you're open to them being
improved elsewhere.
The Linux man-pages project already documents the GNU C library, so it
wouldn't be extraneous to also take ownership of the coreutils manual
pages.
But GNU coreutils isn't Linux specific.
So if anything--since the Linux kernel already uses GNU GPL--Linux
manpages should move to the GNU Project. Any GNU/Linux OS has GNU
software but others like GNU/HURD or the past Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
don't... plus usage of GNU in 'genetic UNIX' such as
OpenSolaris/Illumos/*BSD. Basically Linux is GNU (GPL) but often not
vice-versa (various OS that some also avoid Linux).
