Re: [native-lang] IRC Talk starts now!!

Hi,


>> It's very simple: use PDL, so that content can be exchanged.
>
>
> No, it's not that simple. The PDL prevets content from being reused in 
> the largest pools of existing content (GPL and Creative Commons) it 
> prevents distribution by Debian (the largest Linux distro), it 
> requires a lot of heavy work which made it hard for us to write and 
> review chapters at the speed we wanted (if each chapter gets reviewed 
> 6 times and we have 88 chapters so far, that's a lot of tracking to 
> do) and we were worried that we might not be using the license 
> correctly (how detailed should be tracking be?).

So .. you care about GPL, Creative Commons and Debian. Ok .. I'm fine 
with that.
But .. you don't care about, how your documentation could be reusable 
for the OOo project. That's ok too .. you don't need to do so.
You are attracting volunteers to join OOoAuthors .. thats also fine. 
Every project lead should do so.

But .. these both facts (getteing volunteers to join the OOoAuthors and 
using a license, that is not reusable within the OOo project) makes 
people here at the project upset. Please don't tell you haven't foreseen 
this.

>
> Because there weren't many documents in that category, and there were 
> many documents in the others. Using the same thing other documents use 
> is a desirable goal, but not the only one. For example, if the choice 
> of license prevents redistribution by important channels and causes so 
> much extra work as to halt the project, those are important 
> considerations too. It's not an easy decision. As I said earlier, I'll 
> consider what you said and look for options. Please be a little patient.

I am :-)
As long as there is someone working on an issue, there is still hope ,-)

André