Re-using material from Red Hat Docs

Tammy Fox tfox at redhat.com
Mon Oct 25 18:11:00 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 15:28 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:18 -0400, Tammy Fox wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:42 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 00:23 +0100, Stuart Ellis wrote:
> 
> > > > Would it be possible to re-use an exerpt in Fedora documentation without
> > > > a licencing problem ?
> > > 
> > > Try /usr/share/doc/anaconda-.../ which should all be covered by the GPL
> 
> > The kickstart docs in /usr/share/doc/anaconda-*/ are under the OPL as
> > well. They are just a text version of the ones in the Enterprise Linux
> > docs.
> 
> Certainly COPYING in anaconda CVS doesn't imply that.
> 
> Paul

The top of kickstart-docs.{txt,html} contains the OPL statement. It is
probably worth filing a bug to say that the OPL for the kickstart docs
and the COPYING file contradict each other. Will you file it since you
discovered the bug?

Thanks,
Tammy




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