[Bf-docboard] Feedback?

[Bart Veldhuizen]

Hi Bassam,

> I'm sorry. I had been finishing up some coding for work on a 
> tight deadline, and wanted to read up a little on the docbook 
> DTD before commenting. As for (1)licensing, I assume you mean 

No problem - I just wanted to stir things up a bit ;-)

> licensing for the documentation and not for the source, since 
> I was under the impression (in full agreement) that a dual 
> GPL and proprietery licence was the way to go, to enable the 
> foundation to open source the program and to obtain revenue 
> from companies wishing to use some of the blender source. I'm 
> not sure what the issues are for licensing on the 
> documentation perspective, esp. in regards to convincing 
> publishers to publish something that has an open source 
> license, not a normal copyright. I was thinking the 
> foundation could pursue a dual license approach for the 
> documentation as well, Perhaps with the FDL ( GNU free 
> documentation license) as the open source one. I have no 
> problem with BSD style or Artistic licenses either, and since 
> documentation is effectively source anyhow, I think the 
> differences are minimal in practice. 

> (3) Fileformat: I treated this as a fait accomplis when I saw 
> it, and I'm reading up on docbook for the purposes of 
> learning. If I have any comments I'll post them as they arise.

In case anyone wants to read more about DocBook: O'Reilly has published
an excellent book on it and it's opensource! You can read or download it
from http://www.docbook.org

> (4) I just downloaded the manual proposal. Give me a day or 
> two to comment / add to it. cheers Bassam Kurdali

Thanks!

Bart