On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 07:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Karsten Wade wrote:
OTOH, Spot (and others) have reminded me that the differences between distros outweigh the similarities.
That is not a problem for some of the documentation like basic server side sys administration guides.
We'd still need a full analysis to see if it was worth it. It could be that 20% or 50% or 80% of the content could be shared.
Maybe ... maybe we need to coordinate with other distros to put a common front-end on TLDP to allow us all to update it, and use it as a common docbase? We can use any content that is GPL, afaik, although it's not our preferred license for documentation. The majority of TLDP is still GPL, right?
GPL? You mean GNU FDL. TLDP licensing is a bit of mess but I would guess that the important docs are under GNU FDL which I believe is incompatible with Open Publication License.
:( Bummer ...
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/doc-licensing.html
Because authors retain copyright and choose their own license, there isn't going to be a way that e.g. LDP could multi-license content. So that pretty much lets us out of the running.
FWIW, I'm glad. I don't like the GNU FDL. It's a PITA to administrate, I believe the lawyers who tell me it doesn't give enough protection, and it definitely seems contradictory to the GPL. It's too bad the CC BY-SA doesn't include warranty protection ...
- Karsten