Gnome documentation used in Ubuntu distributions

[Don Scorgie]

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 23:33 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
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> 
> =1=
> 
> We could modify the package which the relevant file is in:
> gnome-user-guide. This is not something that the docteam has ever tried
> before. You can get started by doing "apt-get source gnome-user-guide"
> (which gets you the gnome-user-docs source package) and then you'll need
> to create an Ubuntu-specific patch which is applied to the text.
> 
> I don't know how difficult this will be, because I've never investigated
> whether it is possible to maintain patches on text in packages. We
> should ask one of the Ubuntu developers, or specifically the Ubuntu
> Gnome maintainers, for some guidance, I think.
> 
> =2=
> 
> Instead of directly linking to the Gnome documents as we currently do,
> we could copy them, import them into *our* repository/package, and make
> amendments there. This would require a fair amount of care about keeping
> them up to date, and importing translations, but might be possible.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear what people think about the best way to
> approach this.

You may also want to talk to the legal people about this as there might
be licensing issues about either of these routes.  I don't really know
if there is, but the difficulty of distro enhancements has been
discussed upstream before [1].  I don't know what the requirements /
obligations are, but it's worth reading the fine print.

Don

[1] one of the reasons we're looking for a new license for Project Mallard