Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:48:14 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Slackware Handbook Message-ID: <20050125104814.1436e114@mobile.pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <20050125121058.GD8499@unixpages.org> References: <1106507620.21768.1.camel@raven.nodomain.org> <20050125121058.GD8499@unixpages.org>
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:10:58 +0100 Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:13:40AM -0800, Narayan Newton wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We at MadPenguin.org are creating a website to recreate the FreeBSD > > handbook for the Slackware Linux distribution. The quality and > > completeness of > > the FreeBSD docs is unparalleled in Linux. We feel that a "Slackware > > Handbook" would be very useful to many people. > > > > We have a wiki-like setup that will ease the burden of > > administration and allow the community to moderate the content. What > > would also help is to be able to copy sections of the FreeBSD handbook > > that are the same on Slackware. It is our understanding that the FreeBSD > > documentation is under a BSD-like license that allows copying and > > modification if the copyright is retained. > > > > We would like to confirm this and ask for permission to use the material > > from the FreeBSD Documentation community, as many have > > worked very hard to make this what it is. License or no, it wouldn't be > > right in our view to copy sections without approval of the community. > > > > Yes, the handbook and most (all?) of the other documentation is > distributed under a BSD license. > > See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/LEGALNOTICE.html > for more information. > > So, as long as you honor the license, there's no problem in copying > sections and adapting them to Slackware (e.g. the DragonFly BSD guys > have done the same, http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook/). > Many sections have a 'Contributed by...' text on top, would be nice > if you'd keep them (although it's not required by the license). Personally, I'd like the "Contributed by ..." to stay for sections which have them. Having those sections shown to a wider audiance would help with spelling/grammar/correction fixes and the person(s) responsible would be easier to find by contributors who may want to submit patches. Otherwise, I'm fine with Slackware mirroring our work. :) -- Tom Rhodes
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