RFC: Removing translation leftovers

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 25 05:22:21 UTC 2012


On 2012.09.24. 14:14, Alex Dupre wrote:
> It was translated and formatted as FreeBSD doc by a fellow of the
> Italian FreeBSD Documentation Project and so we included it years ago.
> This is what happened and why it's there.
Ok, please note that I'm not arguing about its right to be there any 
more I just see this is a special case and I would like to clarify 
things. Some people thought before that translations should only carry 
things that are translated from the en_US tree. I don't strictly agree 
with this and I think if it is useful for users, it should be there even 
if there's no corresponding document in en_US. But it seems that the 
same document is available on Internet in English and if it is useful 
for Italian folks, it is probably useful for everyone else. So I think 
we should consider integrating it into the en_US tree as well.

But I have some other type of concerns... Did you check the license when 
adding this books? The English document I found says:
"All rights reserved. You may reproduce all or parts of this document 
for personal, non-commercial use, so long as you attribute the work to 
the authors."

But it does not say anything about modifications. What would you do if 
an Italian reader reports a bug or sends you an addition? Are we allowed 
to modify this document? If it is in the doc tree it should be treated 
like the rest of our documents. I don't know about any "read only" 
article or book in our tree. It would be nice to make it clear how we 
can deal with such special cases.

Gabor



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