ubuntu-doc licensing (was Re: Future direction of Ubuntu Documentation/Meeting times)

[Matt Galvin]

On 7/30/05, Sean Wheller <sean at inwords.co.za> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 July 2005 12:09, Matthew East wrote:
> > One thing that has always bothered me about our docs is the listing of
> > the authors at the top: I find this unnecessary and also (in the case of
> > docs with more than a couple of authors) really unpleasant to look at
> > (e.g. the ubuntu userguide). I believe a simple Ubuntu Documentation
> > Project would do the trick. This is after all a community effort. The
> > simple fact is that the users (who are the target of the documentation)
> > really don't want to know the individuals, they want to access the
> > documentation. If half the first page is taken up by names, they'll get
> > put off.
> 
>  A few people, including myself, have mentioned this in the past. It was
> considered acceptable to have "Members of the Ubuntu Documentation Project"
> and to move the list of authors into an Acknowledgement section.
> 
> As far as I remember, this was acceptable in terms of the license. Therefore,
> there would be no need to change or modify licenses.

+1, it doesn't look very nice to have a dozen names. Users want to see
the docs first.

Matt