From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 2 03:53:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA02924 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 03:53:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA02913; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 03:53:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA28044; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:52:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA11671; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:52:52 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19981002125251.54527@follo.net> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:52:52 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Greg Lehey , Ray Seals , Freebsd-Advocacy Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On-line Help References: <000d01bdec7e$b9fde2e0$1a1e10ac@rseals.midwestis.com> <19981001114527.E603@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <19981001114527.E603@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 11:45:27AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 11:45:27AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I would like to make this comment. The one thing I will hand to the > > Linux crowd is the HOWTO pages on their website. While we have a > > pretty decent set of help pages on our side. As a FreeBSD newbie > > (1.2 years) I have found some things rather difficult to track down. > > I propose that we spend some time porting their HOWTO pages to > > FreeBSD website. I'm sure the lack of documentation on how to do > > things is due to the fact that most of us aren't 14 year olds or in > > college. So, we don't have a lot of time on our hands to write > > documentation. We have to document enough stuff at work. > > Agreed. I had thought of collecting the howtos and adapting them to > FreeBSD as an interim measure. Note that this would mean that they > would be under the GPL; I don't see a big problem with this, though I > know others do. > > > How bad do you think that would piss those guys off? > > They have no reason to be pissed off. If they release stuff under the > GPL, they must expect (even welcome) this to happen. The Linux HOWTOs are under a bunch of different copyrights; the restriction for the Linux Documentation Project is that they are freely redistributable in any form, not that they are under the GPL, if I understand correctly. Apart from that, I've only been in contact with one of the authors, but he was clearly positive to a 'port' :-) Perhaps we technically should do the conversions as this - directly as FreeBSD ports, where people can just install them (and thus get them in /usr/local/share/doc/HOWTO/ or somesuch). That way, there is at least a structure in place for keeping them up to date - and there is precedence for pure documentation port (e.g, the Emacs Lisp manual). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message