Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:52:52 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Ray Seals <rayseals@midwestis.com>, Freebsd-Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On-line Help Message-ID: <19981002125251.54527@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19981001114527.E603@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 11:45:27AM %2B0930 References: <000d01bdec7e$b9fde2e0$1a1e10ac@rseals.midwestis.com> <19981001114527.E603@freebie.lemis.com>
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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
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