Bug#363014: missing OpenGL manpages

[Vickenty Fesunov]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:24:44AM +0100, Joachim Reichel wrote:

> Do we know why the manpages where dropped from the mesa package? Maybe
> for legal reasons?
I could not find any relevant discussion, but in a older revision of
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularFilesMissing I found this note:

>> * xc/doc/man/GL/gl/* ''these are all man pages''
>> * xc/doc/man/GL/glx/* ''these are all man pages''
>> * xc/doc/man/GLU/* ''these are all man pages''
>>   * ''The general consensus is that these should come from SGI's SI 
>>     source if possible.''

> I was unable to find the license of the manpages in X.org 6.9 ...
As stated in this file
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R6.9.0/doc/html/LICENSE2.html

>>XFree86 code without an explicit copyright is covered by the following
>>copyright/license:
>>Copyright (C) 1994-2003 The XFree86 Project, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

I guess the license from this file applies to manual pages too.

> It seems that the manpages from X.org sources encompass more commands
> than the manpages from ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/opengl/doc/man*.tar.Z .
Not only that, manual pages from X.org are labeled as 'Release 1.2.1'
and ones from SGI are 'release 1.1.0' and two years older. Not that
there is any significant difference beyond that.

> There is also a HTML version of these manpages. This should probably be
> packaged too. But I can't find the HTML version in the X.org sources,
> only in the packages from the SGI site.
HTML pages can be generated from nroff sources.

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