Sebastien Arbogast wrote:
2005/5/23, Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I can't find any copyright or license information on the planetcocoon
site. Can you please point me at the relevant page.
Actually so far there is no such thing. As it is said in our
disclaimer, "Planet Cocoon is an unofficial experiment in online
developer community, not endorsed in any way by the Cocoon PMC" so
there is currently no license or copyright of any sort BUT... you
point out something very interesting because there is some original
content there and we should begin to worry about some license.
I'm concerned as much of the documentation content appears to be direct
duplicates of materials in Cocoons official documentation or mailing
lists but I cannot find the required acknowledgement to Apache Software
Foundation. I know you are working closely with the Cocoon community so
I am sure this is only an oversight (possibly on my part).
There is absolutely no duplicate of original documentation (not that I
know of at least... Maaaark !!! You duplicated ??? Bad boy !).
For example:
http://www.planetcocoon.com/node/1209
is
http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/tutorial/tutorial-generator.html
You are correct about mailing lists being archived, but the difference
between your archive and other archives is yours gives the illusion of
being "two way" because it has a forum. There is at least one user who
thought they were posting to the users list by posting on your site.
I should point out, for the benifit of Cocoon devs, that the
planetcocoon admins did cross post the users question to the list
explaining that it was not yet a two way facility and advising the user
to subscribe to the list.
My reason for asking both questins is that I'd like to consider adding
an input plugin to Forrest in order to assist in your stated objective
of "Every effort will be made to ensure that information generated on
Planet Cocoon will end up in the official documentation" (quote from
your home page).
It's very kind of you but we have just begun discussing the storage
format we will choose for our documents in order to suit all the
wonderful features we want to integrate, while keeping docs compatible
with Forrest formats. So it's far from being determined yet. It should
be in the next few weeks or so.
Don't worry about compatible formats All Forrest needs is a way to get
the documents without the navigation, Forrest will do any necessary
conversions in format. All we need is an XML or an (X)HTML document.
Ross
