There is nothing to discuss by the PMC or anyone else about having the documentation on an ASF-owned repository. This has been happening since AOO first came into existence see: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/OOo3.3_Chapters_ODT All of those are under GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), version 3.0 or later, being served from Registrant Organization: The Apache Software Foundation.
What needs to be decided and actioned is the workspace facility the ASF will provide the AOO project for our documentation development in order to support "Open Source software for the public good". It comes as no surprise that after years of trying to make this happen Keith feels despondent and wants "to step away from this entirely". It's way past time that the AOO PMC and anyone even remotely interested in taking AOO forward, call on the ASF to make the trivial amount of resources available in order for the AOO Documentation Project development to finally happen. Dave On 25/01/2021 16:48, F Campos Costero wrote: > How do we bring to a close the question of how to host the working texts? > Should a thread be opened, perhaps on dev, to allow the PMC to express > opinions and then vote on having the documentation on an ASF-owned > repository? > > Francis > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 3:55 PM Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 22/01/2021 Dennis Hamilton wrote: >>> In the case of documentation projects and their repositories, the >> exception is not workable. >> >> Hello Dennis, nice to hear from you... it's been a while! >> >> I basically I agree to everything, but I go a bit further in that I >> don't see a restriction on using an ASF-owned repository. >> >> We all agree that most of what was written to this list about licenses >> mixes up releases and other work. Documentation does not go into an >> Apache release and it does not undergo a formal vote by the PMC, so the >> release policy does not apply to it. >> >> This means that people from the project can work on CC-BY documentation, >> and here we agree. >> >> And, if you ask me, my view is that they can do that even using an >> ASF-owned repository different from our source repository; then others >> might believe that every commit is a release and then we might interpret >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-552 in different ways. >> >> But honestly I would still pursue the avenue of a dedicated ASF >> repository. All we need to do is, maybe, reopen LEGAL-552 and ask for >> additional clarifications. >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
