Fragmentation in Linux Documentation?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 20 02:03:02 UTC 2007


Karsten Wade wrote:

> OTOH, Spot (and others) have reminded me that the differences between
> distros outweigh the similarities.

That is not a problem for some of the documentation like basic server 
side sys administration guides.

> Maybe ... maybe we need to coordinate with other distros to put a common
> front-end on TLDP to allow us all to update it, and use it as a common
> docbase?  We can use any content that is GPL, afaik, although it's not
> our preferred license for documentation.  The majority of TLDP is still
> GPL, right?

GPL? You mean GNU FDL. TLDP licensing is a bit of mess but I would guess 
that the important docs are under GNU FDL which I believe is 
incompatible with Open Publication License.

Rahul




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