Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: references to POSIX

2005-05-30 Thread Karl Berry
"A GNU package should not refer the user to any non-free documentation for free software." As far as this issue goes ... The coding standards themselves mention "Standard C". The C Standard is not free documentation. Admittedly there is no direct link or citation, but I don't see why

Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: references to POSIX

2005-05-27 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Besides, isn't it worth a tiny sacrifice to avoid > systematically including meaningless (and long) strings > like onlinepubs/009695399/ in our code and documentation? I'm reluctant to put URLs like that in the code or documentation, since they mutate to