Ubuntu book

[sparkes]

Ben Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:27:37 +0100, sparkes <sparkes at westmids.biz> wrote:
>>
>>The debian users guide was based on the progeny users guide.  This was a
>>debian based distro with similar aims to ubuntu.  world domination via
>>the desktop route ;-)
> 
> 
> Do you have a URL for this?
>  
yup the same one we dicussed on the users list a couple of weeks ago ;-)
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/users-guide.en.html

This document is released under the GPL so that part of the licencing 
headaches is already covered.

plus perhaps the Debian User Reference Manual
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/user/

This document is also GPL so the two can be merged safely as long as all 
copyright is respected.

The licence thing here is because they predate the GNU FDL

>
>>
>>We need to decide in the meeting what licences to use for generic docs.
>> I would prefer it for John's book to use a compatable licence to make
>>it easy to share resources.  But if they have different licences we need
>>to make sure we check with the authors of the other document we can have
>>permission to relicence sections.
> 
> 
> how about 'Creative Commons'.
> 

on the CC website it suggests that free software projects should use the 
GFDL.  I would prefer to use a licence that comes from the freesoftware 
world for the docs because if Lessig suggests we do it must be the right 
thing (tm) ;-)

sparkes

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