Direction of the Ubuntu system docs

[Phil Bull]

Hi Jonathan,

On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 13:07 -0500, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> If you look at the last post from SABDFL you will see that anything
> lands in the trunk for Unity needs to have the contributor agreement
> signed.  So if the changes only stay in ubuntu-docs a contribution
> agreement won't be needed

That's true, but the problem is, if Canonical decide to release Unity
under a license that's incompatible with ubuntu-docs, they might just
rewrite the Unity docs and add them directly into the package. If that
happens, we've effectively wasted our time. This makes the docs more
difficult to upstream too (although we could create a unity-docs
package, I suppose).

This only amounts to a hypothetical risk and a minor annoyance, so it's
not a massive deal. It does make me feel uneasy about the relationship
between the docs team, Ubuntu, and Canonical, though. If we don't sign
the agreement, will we end up marginalised as a team?

Thanks,

Phil
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