SOS: free/open content in Ubuntu

[Benj. Mako Hill]

<quote who="Quim Gil" date="Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:20:54AM +0100">
> ¿Could you help summarizing a list of free/open content available in a
> Ubuntu distribution, CD + repositories? This means almost everything
> that is not the software source code.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> - Yelp documents + man pages
> - HTML / PDF / other formats tutorials or books (i.e. Dive into Python,
> a whole GIMP manual, etc) somewhere in the filesystem
> - Pixmaps, icons, clipart
> - Pictures
> - Sound files
> - What else?

Fonts? Translations?

> I remember some discussions about locating these contents more
> transparently to the user... Any link provided is useful too.

In terms of our repositories, we don't really make a distinction
between the types of data (functional/non-functional,
programs/non-programs) for a variety of reasons. One major reason is
that the distinction is not always even clear.

In terms of licensing, we explicitly state that we're willing to
consider fonts and documentation under terms that may be under more
terms that we might not accept for software but that it will be done
on a case-by-case and license-by-license basis.

Regards,
Mako 



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