> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 22:09 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > > Work is ongoing to create a new Mallard topic-oriented user manual at > > http://gitorious.org/evolution-docs/evolution-docs . > > > > According to > > http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/id2462476.html.en the > > old user manual is "Copyright 2007 Novell, Inc. Permission is granted to > > copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU > > Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.2". > > > > The Mallard help is licensed as Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0. > > > > CC-BY-SA is incompatible with GFDL, but as far as I know ("I am not a > > lawyer") GFDL 1.3 offers to additionally offer the work under the > > CC-BY-SA license. > > > > Is it possible to have Novell relicense the user manual from "GFDL 1.2" > > to "GFDL 1.3 and CC-BY-SA" so that some sentences and sections from the > > old manual could be reused? > > This would avoid rewriting everything from scratch and would create less > > work for translators as some translations could be reused.
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:42 +0530, Chenthill wrote: > Am just back after a long vacation. I have passed on the query to 'open > source review board' at Novell. We would need an approval from them > before proceeding on with this. Once I get a response from them, will > get things done keeping you informed. Chen, is there any progress? If nothing comes across my way I'd like to get the new docs in a good shape in the next months (targetting 3.2 inclusion, with enough time ahead for translation teams), but the need to rewrite lots of stuff from scratch sounds rather demotivating. andre -- mailto:[email protected] | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper | http://www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
