Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:50:03 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Narayan Newton <narayannewton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Slackware Handbook Message-ID: <20050125155003.2a1754f6@mobile.pittgoth.com> In-Reply-To: <f6f81e805012512226695358c@mail.gmail.com> References: <1106507620.21768.1.camel@raven.nodomain.org> <20050125121058.GD8499@unixpages.org> <20050125104814.1436e114@mobile.pittgoth.com> <f6f81e805012512226695358c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:22:29 -0800 Narayan Newton <narayannewton@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:48:14 -0500, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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 > > > > Having the "Contributed by" line stay would be fine. We probably would > have done that anyway, but will definitely do it now. Thank you very much! Having the documentation available to a wider audiance may help us for the reasons I've already stated. I'm very much in favor of this and would like to raise my hand in show of support. If no one else makes any comments then I think you're good to go since there has been more than enough time for support or objections to have been made. Thanks! -- Tom Rhodes
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