Re: docbook-doc: copyright problem. need some help.
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> few days ago i adopted the up-for-adoption package docbook-doc with
> the intention to maintain it uptodate with the source.
>
> the problem is that the old source this documentation was downloaded from
> is not the official one any more and now it doesn't provide any
> documentation for docbook.
>
> the new commettee is the OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org/) one and refers
> to oreilly for the documentation. oreilly publishes sgml sources of is docs
> and the html formatted version. *none* of them is free or for redistribution.
>
> ence docbook-doc package can not distribute any official documentation.
>
> my question is: can i put in this package any other source of documentation
> or it must be the official one?
If you are the maintainer, you are free to make this decision.
IMHO, it would be nice for it to have a free content, so that it can
go to main.
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