[Mageia-dev] [Bug 1016] No help in installer

Anne nicolas ennael at mageia.org
Thu Apr 28 12:02:10 CEST 2011


2011/4/28 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
> Le jeudi 28 avril 2011 à 10:39 +0200, Anne nicolas a écrit :
>> 2011/4/28 Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>:
>> > On 28 April 2011 10:08, Remco Rijnders <remco at webconquest.com> wrote:
>> >>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016
>> >>>
>> >>> D Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> changed:
>> >>>
>> >>>          What    |Removed                     |Added
>> >>>
>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>>        AssignedTo|bugsquad at mageia.org         |dmorganec at gmail.com
>> >>>                CC|                            |dmorganec at gmail.com
>> >>>
>> >>> --- Comment #1 from D Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> 2011-04-28 12:02:52
>> >>> CEST ---
>> >>> i started to work on it.
>> >>
>> >> Given our target audience and seeing how this is going to be our first full
>> >> release, perhaps this should be release blocking? WDYT?
>> >
>> > About the license issue, isn't that a non issue:
>> > $ rpm -qp --qf '%{license}\n'
>> > mandriva-doc-installer-help-2010.1-1.0mdv2010.1.noarch.rpm
>> > Open Publication License
>> >
>> > There's no additional restrictions neither in the package nor in its
>> > mandriva-doc SRPM
>> >
>>
>> In documentation
>>
>> "Copyright © 2009 Mandriva SA
>>
>> This material may only be distributed subject to the terms and
>> conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later
>> (the latest version is presently available at opencontent.org).
>>
>> Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is
>> prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.
>>
>> Distribution of the work or derivatives of the work in any standard
>> (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained
>> from the copyright holder."
>>
>>
>> When we had a look on it we discovered that it could be a full
>> copyleft license provided there is no restriction. Which is not the
>> case for Mandriva
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_License. This has been
>> checked also with Neodoc who worked on it for years
>
> What about then a message stating that we didn't finished the cleaning
> in time and so on ?

It's planned in errata but I'm not fond of keeping help button for that.
>
> --
> Michael Scherer
>
>



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Anne
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