Re: relationship between debian's wiki and newbiedoc's wiki
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:44:45PM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >What is the relationship between the debian.org wiki and newbiedoc's
> >wiki?
> >[...]
> >
>
> They are not linked.
>
> NewbieDOC started out as a Sourceforge project for Debian newbie
> documentation in 2001. It had an email list and a series of Docbook
> style articles (which are still available in the Debian "newbiedoc"
> package). The project declined and became virtually unmaintained. It was
> moved to Berlios a year ago as a wiki using Mediawiki software after
> Sourceforge upgraded PHP and made the original unmaintained website
> unworkable. (There are technical problems running wikis on Sourceforge,
> hence the move to Berlios.) The original project files remain at
> Sourceforge as per their terms and conditions. They can be accessed from
> the NewbieDOC wiki or by using their original Sourceforge URLs. The
> Sourceforge newbiedoc list is closed.
>
> Anyone interested in contributing to or developing the NewbieDOC project
> would be very welcome.
>
Except that all entries GFDL not GPL. Similar to another recent thread
about browser user strings that pointed to Kant's Categorical
Imperitive, why would someone who supports Debian's stance on the GFDL
turn around and write any documentation under the GFDL?
If you changed the licence to be DFSG compliant, I would be happy to
contribute. Then again, if you did that, perhaps NewbieDoc's wiki could
be merged to Debian's.
Doug.
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