This has been done.  Please holler if my changes broke any part of the
trunk build.  I don't have a way to test rpm builds.

Cheers,
Bryan

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:26 -0600, Bryan Sutula wrote:
> OpenHPI currently has an old documentation directory, docs/hld in the
> source tree.  The documents there were written early in the OpenHPI
> project history.  IMO, some are still useful to new users, but many are
> out of date.
> 
> There was a suggestion some years ago that these be moved to the OpenHPI
> wiki, where there would be a better chance of having them be updated,
> possibly even by end users who are the people that would naturally look
> at them first.  To date, this hasn't happened.
> 
> There is a second issue with the documents.  They are licensed under a
> different license than the rest of the project.  The license is:
> 
>         This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and
>         conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or
>         later (the latest version is currently available at
>         http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).  Distribution of
>         substantively modified version of this document is prohibited
>         without the explicit
>         permission of the copyright holder.
> 
> In this, the copyright holder would be the initial author of each
> section of the document.  I don't believe any of these authors are still
> actively involved in the OpenHPI project.
> 
> My concern is that if the sections dealing with parts of OpenHPI that
> have changed greatly were brought up to date, this might constitute a
> "substantively modified version" and original author permission would
> pose an undue burden on the change process.
> 
> Given where we are today, I am proposing that we remove docs/hld from
> the next release of OpenHPI.  These documents (in their older forms)
> will continue to be available in past OpenHPI release tarballs, as well
> as from the svn source history.  Should someone have the time to start a
> documentation portion of the OpenHPI wiki (http://openhpi.org), they can
> draw from this material as a starting point.
> 
> Thoughts?  Counter-proposals?
> 
> Bryan Sutula
> 
> 
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