On 02/14/2014 09:02 PM, Pete Travis wrote: > Hey Tom, > > Can you provide some general legal-type guidelines on mentioning > not-Fedora topics in Fedora Docs? I've learned that we shouldn't > directly guide users to third party repos, but there's a lot of room for > potential conflict. > > Lately, I've been woorking on a multiboot guide and wondering what would > be considered permissible. For example, I'd like to explain how to > disable Windows' "fast reboot" feature to allow Fedora users to mount an > NTFS volume safely. I'd also like to explain how to add Windows or some > other OS to GRUB manually, or to a system's firmware boot options with > `uefibootmgr`. There's varying degrees of foreignness there, and the > list certainly isn't exhaustive - just some token examples. > > It would be good to have some general guidelines to follow going > forward. I would like to find a home for them in the Documentation Guide. This is a bit tricky, but here's the best I can do right now: * We cannot tell people how to do things that violate software patents. - No "this is how to play mp3s" * We cannot walk people through enabling third party repositories where we have a high degree of suspicion that they contain legally questionable items in them. This is tricky, hence, it is safer to just not mention it at all. * We cannot tell people how to do things that would violate US law - No "this is how to decode DVDs via FOSS tools" Making changes to Windows? Totally fine. hth, ~tom -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
