RE: License problem in Ubuntu Desktop Guide (Re: Incorporating Gnomedocs into ours) sec=unclassified

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 14:42 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- "Stoffers, Robert LAC"
> <Robert Stoffers defence gov au> wrote:
> 
> > > Other alternatives are: (1) split the Gnome
> > material out again, and 
> > > (2) relicense our desktop guide in a way which
> > allows us to use the
> > > Gnome material, or (3) ask permission from all the
> > copyright holders
> > > in the Gnome desktop guide to use their chapters
> > in our desktop 
> > > guide, and relicence it.
> 
> The earlier messages from this thread haven't made it
> to the gnome docs list.
> They are here:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2006-September/thread.html
> 
> There's actually a bigger problem, pointed out by mpt
> in a reply in the thread: several gnome apps have help
> buttons linking to the Gnome UG, including Nautilus,
> Bug Buddy, all the pref tools, and quite a few panel apps.

I think the much bigger question is, why does Ubuntu
feel the need to have its own desktop guide, and what
can Mallard to do help?

Was that two questions?  Does that make this four?

--
Shaun