Thoughts on a UM manual

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Wolfman kindly posted a link to a resource that I'd not yet come across:

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The link he provided goes to the website of the "ubuntu-manual.org"

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Question 1:
As UM is an official flavour of Ubuntu would it not make sense to use the structure of this Ubuntu (-Vanilla) manual as the skeleton for an UM manual?

Question 2:
Copyright considerations. In view of the license used, I do not believe that there are any problems with respect to copyright. Can anyone see any problems?

Copyright statement from the manual:
Copyright © 2010–2014 by The Ubuntu Manual Team. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–Share Alike 3.0 License. To view a copy of this license, see Appendix A, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Section 3, subsections a-d of the license state:

  1. License Grant. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright) license to exercise the rights in the Work as stated below:
    (a) to Reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more Collections, and to Reproduce the Work as incorporated in the Collections;
    (b) to create and Reproduce Adaptations provided that any such Adaptation, including any translation in any medium, takes reasonable steps to clearly label, demarcate or otherwise identify that changes were made to the original Work. For example, a translation could be marked “The original work was translated from English to Spanish,” or a modification could indicate “The original work has been modified.”;
    (c) to Distribute and Publicly Perform the Work including as incorporated in Collections; and,
    (d) to Distribute and Publicly Perform Adaptations.

Question 3:
Under the terms of the license we could re-use elements (at least as a basis, prior to UM-specific editing) which are common to Ubuntu (-Vanilla) and UM?

Question 4:
Is there any way that we could "clone" / share their infrastructure? Would that be be beneficial? Would it be better to use a seperate infrastructure (see above posts) for the creation of a UM manual?

So, this could be a milestone on the path to a UM manual. Thoughts anyone?

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