Re-using material from Red Hat Docs

Tammy Fox tfox at redhat.com
Mon Oct 25 14:18:53 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:42 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 00:23 +0100, Stuart Ellis wrote:
> > Looking at the Kickstart and Boot Options sections, there are lists of
> > options which are already written in the Red Hat docs.
> > 
> > The Kickstart options are a very long list:
> > 
> > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
> > 
> > The legal notices say Open Publication Licence (rather than GNU FDL),
> > but also "distribution of substantively modified versions of this
> > document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright
> > holder".
> > 
> > Would it be possible to re-use an exerpt in Fedora documentation without
> > a licencing problem ?
> 
> Try /usr/share/doc/anaconda-.../ which should all be covered by the GPL
> 
> Paul

The kickstart docs in /usr/share/doc/anaconda-*/ are under the OPL as
well. They are just a text version of the ones in the Enterprise Linux
docs.

Tammy




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