>>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Karsten> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 06:47, Nick wrote: ... >> 3. Are there any priorities or road maps for this project? >> 4. The main Red Hat site already has some great documentation which is >> largely applicable to Fedora, is anybody "converting" or "borrowing" >> from this to get started? (better yet, are we allowed to do so, legally) Karsten> Replying to both 3. and 4. together. The following is basically Karsten> my surmised opinion, so don't be overly surprised if I get a few Karsten> facts wrong. :) Karsten> The focus for the Fedora docs project is primarily on tutorials Karsten> and how-to documentation (fact). Our experience building and Karsten> supporting the enterprise product level documentation for Red Hat Karsten> has shown that it is a truly more-than-full-time job (fact). Not Karsten> expecting that level of commitment from the open source community, Karsten> Tammy (wisely) decided to have the Fedora documentation be of the Karsten> easier to produce and maintain tutorial variety (guess). While I can't claim to be a resident of Tammy's cranium :-), I do recall discussions surrounding some of her thinking at the time. She felt that tutorials would be easier for an interested party to write than an entire manual (or even a chapter of a manual). Karsten> The sole exception is the Installation Guide and this project's Karsten> Documentation Guide (fact). Note that the "Installation Guide" mentioned here is a still-aborning document that is *not* related to any previous Red Hat Linux Installation Guide. Karsten> The content of the RHEL and RHL documents is covered under the Karsten> OPL; you can check the license for any doc by looking at the Karsten> legalnotice.html page, accessible from the ToC of any document, Karsten> e.g.: Karsten> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/admin-guide/legalnotice.html Ummm, one minor point. You'll note that These documents include the following options to the OPL: "Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder." "Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard (paper) book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder." These options effectively restrict documents licensed in this fashion from being used for the Fedora project. Karsten> IMHO, the conversion project would be pretty big to perform - the ... Unfortunately, given the license these points are all moot... Ed -- Ed Bailey Red Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/
