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Summary: Review Request: publican - publication tool chain
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427481
------- Additional Comments From jfearn@redhat.com 2008-02-11 18:50 EST ------- (In reply to comment #94)
(In reply to comment #93)
- Added GFDL to License to cover content and Book_Template directories.
- Included GFDL txt file
I want to reiterate a point here because it may save time and hassle in the future if we resolve this now.
You may recall that when the Fedora Project was formed,
lol Sometimes I think you forget just how long you have been around! I certainly haven't been around that long :D
all the Docs Project work was under the GFDL. This was done as an assumptive move by Project founders, they never asked Legal what license to use, and it turned out to be a mistake. Red Hat Legal (Mark Webbink) required us to re-license all the content, which was a fair bit of work.
It is not clear to me if the upstream of publican (in the form of Red Hat's Content Services team) is actually permitted to use the GFDL. It sounds as if you chose to pick a good license from the Fedora Project list and Red Hat Legal may not have been involved in the license choice?
The default template is not used by the Red hat Documentation Team, they use a different brand licensed under the OPL + Restrictions.
The default brand is intended for use by the general open source community and not Red hat or Fedora specific documentation.
Based on the previous commit, it sounds as if Book_Template is covered by the GFDL. I can see in the Book_Info.xml file that Common_Content/Legal_Notice.xml is called by the template.
Ahhh! Nicely spotted! I should have split out the Book_Template in to each of the brands when I split out the other common content. I will put up new packages today with the per brand Book_Templates.
https://fedorahosted.org/documentation-devel/browser/trunk/publican/Book_Tem...
Does that make just the template under the GFDL or ...? If the template is under the GFDL, I'm unclear on how Fedora is going to use the tool. If I use it to make a book for Fedora, but the book *cannot* be under the GFDL due to Legal's previous restrictions, how does the license affect the content I am going to write into that template? If it makes the content GFDL, then that template cannot be used for Fedora content.
This is why I have been advocating across the board usage of the OPL without restrictions for all parts of publican, from the tools to the templates to the branding files. True, there are other licenses that a package can use and have that package be in Fedora (the distro). But if you want the package to be useful to Fedora (the Project), this mix of licenses does not make it clear that it *can* be used.
publican-fedora is licensed under the OPL, no restrictions, any content that is being used from the main package will be duplicated in to the fedora specific brand package. I think I have it all duplicated now, but i will take another look over it to check again.
Thanks for looking over this package and highlighting things I missed splitting out .. maybe there is something to this "many eyes" philosophy :)