On 02/14/2014 09:02 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
Hey Tom,
Can you provide some general legal-type guidelines on mentioning
not-Fedora topics in Fedora Docs? I've learned that we shouldn't
directly guide users to third party repos, but there's a lot of room for
potential conflict.
Lately, I've been woorking on a multiboot guide and wondering what would
be considered permissible. For example, I'd like to explain how to
disable Windows' "fast reboot" feature to allow Fedora users to mount an
NTFS volume safely. I'd also like to explain how to add Windows or some
other OS to GRUB manually, or to a system's firmware boot options with
`uefibootmgr`. There's varying degrees of foreignness there, and the
list certainly isn't exhaustive - just some token examples.
It would be good to have some general guidelines to follow going
forward. I would like to find a home for them in the Documentation Guide.
This is a bit tricky, but here's the best I can do right now:
* We cannot tell people how to do things that violate software patents.
- No "this is how to play mp3s"
* We cannot walk people through enabling third party repositories where
we have a high degree of suspicion that they contain legally
questionable items in them. This is tricky, hence, it is safer to just
not mention it at all.
* We cannot tell people how to do things that would violate US law
- No "this is how to decode DVDs via FOSS tools"
Making changes to Windows? Totally fine.
hth,
~tom