Re: What's the plan for the user guide?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:40 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 16:06 -0500, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > On 2/4/06, karderio <karderio gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anybody asked the copyright holders if they wouldn't mind
> releasing
> > > under a new license ? I don't see what SUN would gain from
> refusing. We
> > > could maybe ask them through their people who work on GNOME... Who
> else
> > > holds copyright on this ?
> > >
> > Why don't we ask Sun? I can provide emails of people in Sun's doc
> team
> > (they also used to have an email alias for the whole doc team - not
> > sure if it still works). I expect they still read this list but
> mostly
> > they are quiet here.
> 
> Unfortunately, the docs team who worked on GNOME are at Sun were
> long-term contractors, so none of them are here any more (bar their
> manager).  So as they're all off working on other projects now,
> they're
> probably not keeping up with GNOME developments.
> 
> First point of contact to ask about the copyright issues would
> probably
> be Dee, the aformentioned manager who's still here and sitting right
> next to me :)  If you have her email address, feel free to contact
> her,
> or I can try and summarise the issues and pass them on.

On the other hand, if I'm not mistaken, all documentation work
done by Sun employees was credited to Sun, and Sun alone held
copyright over those works.  So I don't think we need to ask
Pat and Eugene and all the rest; we only need to ask Sun.

--
Shaun