Progeny GPLs manual
From DebianPlanet:
Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. is releasing the User's Guide included with
Progeny Debian 1.0 for public use and is asking for volunteers to update
and maintain the manual. The User's Guide is over 400 pages of Debian
related content and will be available under the GPL (General Public
License) and available at http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/debian/doc/
The maintainer for the project is Bruce Byfield (bbyfield@axionet.com),
a former Progeny employee who wrote the original manual. Byfield, now a
marketing and technical communication consultant in Vancouver, Canada,
says, "I'm glad to see the manual live on. The project will need some
revisions to remove specific references to Progeny, but, basically, what
we have is a manual for beginning to intermediate users that's about
complete. I'd like to think that the project will help Debian to have
documentation that equals or exceeds what the commercial distributions
are offering." Anyone who is interested in helping maintain the
documentation should contact Bruce Byfield via email at
bbyfield@axionet.com.
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There's some work to be done to get the files into a free format, and to remove the references to Progeny-specific tools. After that, we'll see what happens. The manual may continue as a separate project. Alternatively, the people on the project may decide to fold it into existing documentation efforts.
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Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield@axionet.com
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