Re: Guidlines and Skeletons for Epiphany Help Documentation

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

> 
> Well, it is not quite correct. By GFDL, any use of the document other
> than copying the whole doc unchanged is called "modifying", so
> cut-and-paste falls under "modifying a document", too. Thus when you
> create a new document by borrowing pieces from existing docs, according
> to GFDL, the document you created should be considered a "modified
> version" of the original docs, so legally, you have to include the
> previous authors. 
> 
> But I agree: legalities aside, the most reasonable way would be to
> include an "Acknowledgments" section. To be legally clean, you might
> want to ask original copyright holders if they agree to that - if they
> do, then you are fine.  I do not think anyone would object...
> 
> 

Sasha, of course, is correct about the etiquette. I forgot to say that you 
should ask copyright holders of source documents if it is ok to use their 
material, and let them know that you will credit them in the Acknowledgements 
section. Like Sasha says, it's unlikely that anyone will object. 

Pat