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

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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