[CentOS] Documentation link on new Firefox CentOS 7 splash screen

Mon Jan 19 05:59:56 UTC 2015
Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca>

On 19/01/15 12:37 AM, Peter wrote:
> On 01/19/2015 05:18 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> Well then there appears to be no reason to not go with a version of my
>> initial suggestion.
>>
>> State what CentOS is and what it's sources are.  State that there may be
>> some minor divergence between the behavior of CantOS and the Red Hat
>> documentation.  You can explain why if you feel that it's required.
>>
>> Attribute the documentation to Red Hat.
>>
>> Provide a link to the original Red Hat documentation as required in
>> their copyright statement.
>>
>> By taking these steps we would be exceeding the requirements of the
>> license in that we are providing the attribution and the link even
>> though we are not distributing the document, or a modified version of it.
>>
>> By providing a link to the documentation we would no more be
>> distributing the documentation than Google would be distributing the
>> Weather Channel by providing a link to it in their search results.
>
> I don't see why we couldn't, or shouldn't modify it, though, so logn as
> we first make sure to comply with the rest of the license provisions, ie
> remove RedHat trademarks, give appropriate attribution and link to the
> original docs, then we can go ahead and modify it wiki-style so that it
> reflects the differences in CentOS.
>
>
> Peter

A wiki format would be fantastic.

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