Documentation project status

Dave Pawson dpawson at nildram.co.uk
Tue Dec 23 10:59:25 UTC 2003


At 19:27 22/12/2003, Edward C. Bailey wrote:

>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.


If applicable, an SGML to XML conversion under FDL use wouldn't breach 1.
I for one certainly wouldn't deliver a paper copy, which abides by 2.

How many docs are still applicable to Fedora?

regards DaveP. 






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