[FM Discuss] Forking an official manual for translation in FM?

[Mick Fuzz]

>
> yeah, two general rules i rekin:
> 1. there is no such thing as too much documentation in the free 
> software world so there is no need to ask permission but it is always 
> good manners ;)
> 2. we are here to make free manuals about free software, not to build 
> the fm empire so we should help where we see a need (ie. workbooks 
> seem to be a good way we can compliment their efforts)

But sometimes you do need to ask to reuse material as it needs to be 
'ported' to GPL license sometimes from another license -

Case in point do we need permission to reuse material in the  Audacity 
team's manual. which is currently
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

I've written to them to ask.

I like the idea of creating the Audacity Workbook - as personally that 
is exactly what I want to create. I also think that online manual 
maintainers will get that more than a perceive duplicate manual.

nice one
mick