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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Roberto Mello <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Documentation in book length
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 11:30:17 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Roberto Mello writes:

> As far as my understanding of the BSD license applied to documents allows
> anyone to modify said documents, saved the copyright notices are left.
> However, it is very uncool to remove authorship credits from the
> documentation. I don't see how removing such credits will make the Red Hat
> DB documentation look any better or more "professional".

It's not particularly fair, but we should discuss it.  Either we
consistently attribute every section or chapter, or we don't do it.  I
could probably put names on most chapters from memory and I wouldn't mind
it, but it does seem like an unusual thing to have names on only a few
sections.  Maybe it would be a good compromise to record significant
documentation work in the release notes with the usual attribution?

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   [email protected]

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