Xubuntu documentation ideas

[Richard A. Johnson]

On Friday 21 December 2007, cody-somerville at ubuntu.com wrote:
| Hi Jim,
|
|  If I understand correctly, you wish to duplicate the Xfce4
| documentation in our documentation? If so, what benefit does this
| provide? Wouldn't be lose the translation that occurs upstream? Also,
| is there even docs for 4.4 yet?

From the look of upstream, there isn't much translation, more could honestly 
be done here within Ubuntu with Rosetta. However, Xfce docs are GPL v2, which 
means they would have to either dual license their documentation to include 
CC-by-SA 2.5 or newer or you would have to GPL v2 the Xubuntu docs.

By doing GPL on Xubuntu docs, you can't use the documentation from the wiki as 
it is licensed CC-by-SA. So there is a catch 22.

There are some docs for 4.4 in their repos, but they do not look complete. 
This is a tricky one, and you are facing the same issues we are with Kubuntu 
by having CC-by-SA documentation. Kubuntu makes changes to the application to 
the point that some of the documentation for the applications is inaccurate, 
so instead of copying, we have to write out full documentation, or link to 
the current documentation with a note on how we changed it. This is fine, but 
it takes away from the current documentation since the help application in 
KDE 3.5 doesn't have the capabilities to go back and forth.

-- 
Richard A. Johnson
nixternal at kubuntu.org
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