[Desktop Help] Copyright Issue - Clarification Needed

[Benjamin Kerensa]

So I think this could be good for more discussion in the past the Doc Team
has used Creative Commons with attribution to the Doc Team. But we don't do
a very good job of making contributors aware that their contributions are
being automatically licensed under the CC while some projects have a
contributor agreement that outlines such.

One concern I have had with merging in GNOME doc is that if we transition
to being our own upstream we will have to rework all of our doc to ensure
that GNOME contributions do not exist in it or maintain attribution and
respect any licensing they release their documentation under.

Also, contributors come and go from the Documentation Team so how do we
respect them and attribute them perpetually?




On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Greg Beam <ki7mt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Doug sent out an email a day or so ago regarding some problems I had
> with an MP for Online Accounts. One of the issues we had (still have),
> is the "About" section at the bottom of each page, the different methods
> being used for declaration or lack there of.
>
> I put 4 examples (there may be more) in a single image for ease of
> understanding (not high quality, but enough for illustration).
>
> Image Link: http://imagebin.org/286644
>
> Unknowingly, I added to this problem by
>
> 1). Adding the copyright information in the <info> section of the .page
> files Item #3. The reason for this was formatting Look & Feel in the
> "About" section. I was trying to mirror the author and editor sections.
>
> 2). In an attempt to make this change universal, using the legal.xml
> file, I left out the Mallard url portion of the link, which broke it for
> all files using the legal.xml xref. It has since been fixed and should
> be rendering correctly in Help as of ubuntu-docs r330
>
> The four variants I've found thus far, in Ubuntu Help r331 are:
>
> #1 Ubuntu Help: No declaration at all.
>
> #2 Ubuntu Help: KI7MT method, <license> tag no legal.xml
>
> #3 Ubuntu Help: Gnome method, legal.xml link
>
> #4 Ubuntu Help: Gnome method, personal copyright.
>
> None of this is super critical at the moment, but if we let it go too
> long, we could be scrambling at release time.
>
> I'm not sure who this should go too nor who makes the call on which way
> to proceed, but a bit of guidance now could save us allot of work on the
> other end.
>
> Greg
> ki7mt at yahoo.com
>
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