Licenses

[Matthew East]

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Hi,

This thread is another one about licensing. Hopefully it can summarise
the various issues and reach a quick consensus. There are three
subjects. If you have any views on any of them, please chip in.

1. Can we stop including licenses in full in our documents as appendices
and simply provide the full text on the user's system and link to them
in the document's "info" page?

This has been discussed briefly on the mailing list and in the meeting
this evening (#ubuntu-doc). Not enough people were around for a
decision, but in both of those discussions everyone has approved of this
idea.

If no one disapproves, I think we can implement this quite easily by Edgy.

2. Shall we change from our dual-licensing policy?

Again, this has been discussed on the mailing list and in the meeting.
Everyone seems in favour of abandoning the dual licensing policy, and
given that the Ubuntu forum and the Ubuntu book both use the CC-By-SA
license, and we like it, that seems to be the way that everyone who has
opined on the subject would like to go.

This is a complex task involving seeking as many people's permission as
possible, so it would appear to be out of the question for Edgy. Jeff's
idea of asking all members to agree that content can, in the future, be
re-licensed by the documentation team by consensus is a good one.

3. Gnome guide licensing hell.

Matthew Paul Thomas recently pointed out the problems with using Gnome
documentation directly in our guides, so I have stripped the sections
from the Gnome desktop guide out of our desktop guide. We now have a
small pickle: there are two significant desktop guides shipped with the
desktop, and we need to figure out how to present them so as to not
leave the user totally confused. One option would be to include a
chapter in the Ubuntu desktop guide which links to the Gnome guide, and
only present the Ubuntu desktop guide on the front page of Yelp.

Matt
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