-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ubuntu: - ------- The Ubuntu guides are published in a frameless format, and the bottom of every page contains the following statement: "The material in this document is available under a free license, see Legal for details" "Legal" is a link to this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/legal.html The legal page contains a brief explanation of the CC-BY-SA licence that the project uses, along with a link to another web page that lists all contributor to the Ubuntu Documentation Team. They don't appear to have specific instructions on how their documentation should be attributed when borrowed. OpenSUSE: - --------- The official documentation is available here: http://doc.opensuse.org/ Their guides begin with a copyright statement similar to ours, giving a publication date, assigning copyright to "Novell, Inc. and contributors" and deferring to the GNU FDL licence. There is an "About This Guide" chapter, analogous to the Preface in Fedora guides. There is an "Acknowledgements" section that's similar to, but more generous than, the "Acknowledgements" section in some Fedora guides. N.B. They have a style guide and two documentation guides that may be of interest to us. See previous link. SUSE Linux: - ----------- The last chapter of each official document is called "Legal," and it contains the licence for the document. Copyright is owned by Novell, Inc., and specific authors are not mentioned. Debian: - ------- Their documentation is less standardized. Each document seems to have its own (similar) copyright statement, assigning copyright to specific people who contributed to the document. Most documents use the GNU GPL. Some documents have a section with more detailed "thanks" and attribution. Gentoo: - ------- All contributors to a document are listed on the far right side of each page, in a column. The bottom of most pages gives the licence (CC-BY-SA 2.5 by default), and underneath that (on all pages) is a statement assigning copyright to "Gentoo Foundation, Inc." GNOME: - ------- I can't find standardized legal information, but some documents have a statement like on this page: http://library.gnome.org/users/dasher/unstable/index-info.html.en All pages have the following notice at the very bottom: "Copyright (c) 2005-2011 The GNOME Project" This is too vague. KDE: - ---- Each handbook has a list of "developers" at the top (I can only guess this is documentation developers), in addition to copyright notices for specific authors. This is confusing, and I'm not sure who should receive attribution. There is also a link to a "Legal Notice," which is a statement that the documents are subject to the GNU FDL. Conclusions: - ------------ We're exploring new territory. For the projects that I inspected, I cannot find anything that is more specific or useful than Fedora's current solution; some other projects are equally specific. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOBQWeAAoJEInCktGVqZ8VIlcH/je7v9z16KIfCIEM2woh1Bq7 ypwrCON8BLMIWMwHFnryl5a998z33yc6F9OY55jfPkeaVQ3G6gc5hjPMc6O53PJv WV3FA2NGtEpiQCM6kgN1RrFjfu2yg5ddVCW2vnAyE+ia7orzK2VKCPbvpQtRWHYg GDUYHldiZ/8zWH4RBRLoRV9mso2EvQ8+fpNz1F5AC/xY7jOEBRGZMpH99U7ld9nD 03jz+KzNnHDVpt5fWoRrgMMC8AHJJ30tdZAJmRLSFqigcee5G8lEEomkXyLaS26J Us6tugia/AMl++NqiNRfK+81V7TpSdyLwnou5roPwg1aRgpdZeh2cECwaNexqcU= =jpFj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
