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Is anyone discussing a copyrighted book or manual at this point? If so, let's not. It's Copyleft or Public Domain. No proprietary books or content should be included in official Inkscape documentation. We need to be able to freely revise, edit, distribute without the legal entanglements.
-C
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:28 AM, brynn <brynn@...3133...> wrote:
- How does version control work for booktype?
This question will probably make more sense when you make the next post you promised from a different message. I had asked why we were talking about using gitlab and all that, if we were still focused on the FLOSS translation/manual. And you said you had an idea to present that you didn't have time at that moment.
I can't really see a marriage of these 2 projects (free manual, copyrighted book of tutorials). But I'm looking forward to hearing your proposal :-)
All best, brynn
-----Original Message----- From: Maren Hachmann Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 1:28 PM To: Nicolas Dufour ; brynn ; C R Cc: inkscape-devel ; Inkscape-Docs Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] Any chance we can make some docs material? (targeting the moon)
Hi Nicolas :D,
thank you!
What I would like to know (and what is now buried deep in the email stream) is:
- How does version control work for booktype? Could it be combined with
a git repository, or does it use a fully independent system? (I couldn't find a direct hint, maybe it's just using the django database to keep track of changes/edits?)
- What is the source file format of booktype? Markdown? (guessing from
the requirements for pip)
Regards, Maren
Am 01.05.2017 um 21:08 schrieb Nicolas Dufour:
Hi all,
I'm just back from two weeks away, and as the thread is very long now I didn't find time to read everything. Sorry if I'm off-topic.
Le Lundi 1 mai 2017 13h07, Maren Hachmann <maren@...3165...> a écrit :
I only wish Nicolas or Elisa could be here to give us some more in-depth
info about their server's capabilities
Not sure what you mean. Of course the Inkscape project can use the French FM server for the translation, but note that an English version also exists (http://write.flossmanuals.net/). It would probably be easier to work on the English server directly.
and their book's licencing.
If I remember correctly, the GPLv2 was the first license that was chosen when the FM project was created about 10 years ago, and some books still use it. But the server allows users to choose a different license when creating a new book (CC, GPL, PD). As for the Inkscape book, I see it's under a GPLv3. I don't know if it can be changed (and how) or not. Elisa could probably give more details.
Regards, -- Nicolas