Re: trademark legal issues for Fedora

I'm going to move this discussion to fedora-docs-list, where others can help think about the solution in a Brave New World of documents individually hosted as projects. On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 12:56 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote: I think we have our trademark documentation in the legalnotice element that's included in all our published documentation. That happens automatically in the Fedora Docs toolchain when we make HTML or other outputs from the XML. Obviously, if we go to individually hosted Fedora projects for documentation, we don't want each manual to carry its own copy of the legal notice. What we could do is: 1. Continue to use XInclude for these purposes, basically putting in a placeholder for the <legalnotice> element. 2. Have the README or other instructions for the project (and the .spec file for the package) rely on a fedora-doc-common package. a. That package would be *itself* a hosted project. b. Its content would be original XML and PO files. c. It would produce a package of all the XML files, original and translated. d. Those XML files would be used in the <xi:include> in the individual hosted documents. This makes sense to me from a programmatic standpoint. It's much like Python projects -- you put in a README saying what the developer (documentation writer) needs to have installed to help out. Then in the .spec file you put in "BuildRequires: fedora-doc-common", which means the RPM package that eventually goes to people's systems will have all the right content inside. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug