[oi-dev] demonstration docs website

[Michael Kruger]

On 05/07/2016 04:21 AM, Nikola M wrote:
>
> Michael Kruger maliciously requested yesterday that all Opensolaris docs
> be removed from
> http://dlc.openindiana.org/docs/ , not telling he requested to host
> expanded .zip with Opensolaris docs as reference, but I requested for
> another Dir with Docs be there for Docs renewal reference.

For a little history on this.....

Since I signed on to help with the docs effort, one of the first things 
I wanted to see done was to have the original OpenSolaris docs 
re-hosted. Yes, they're obsolete, but they are extremely comprehensive 
and much of the information contained within them is still relevant.

To that end I requested some time ago for Xenol to upload a collection 
of OpenSolaris PDF files to meet this need. These PDF files are a subset 
of a documentation archive provided by Nikolam.

At this same time Nikolam also made a request to upload the remainder of 
his collection to the DLC server. For anyone interested in what else was 
there, Nikolam has provided a link below where the archive can be 
downloaded.

Immediately it was pointed out there could be licensing concerns as the 
OSOL PDF's were SUN Microsystems branded. For this reason, nothing was 
announced so I could take the time to research the licensing aspects of 
it all.

In my ignorance, up until this point I had assumed that if something 
originated from Sun's OpenSolaris efforts and was labeled 'OpenSolaris', 
it's probably OK to rehost. That unfortunately was a naive and incorrect 
assumption, and I apologize for it.

In the end I could only conclude much of the information we uploaded was 
indeed in violation of copyrights held by Oracle, Internet Archive, and 
others (Sun, etc.).

It is now my understanding the only content which we can safely re-host 
is content explicitly PDL licensed. Doing otherwise, is verboten.

For this reason I requested for the content to be removed.

I accept full responsibility for both the original uploading of those 
SUN PDF's and my request to have them removed.



>
> They are available on and are re-distributible and are available for
> reuse under PDL on:
> https://mega.nz/#F!PJI2yLAK!B58qhG2jqIffPNtQD9dKqw
>
> When you unpack them you can read all of them, and you get all the docs
> we have from Opensolaris and there is also application for exporting
> from DocBook XML into HTML and PDF and those are what Openinidana docs
> can build upon, same as illumos was grown form Opensolaris.
> Trere are tool on:
> https://github.com/rmustacc/illumos-docbooks  under /tools (SolBook Trans)
> GUI part needs fixing but in CLI it does the job of making Html and PDF.
>
> We currently have extensive existing "Openindiana handbook" on Oi Wiki
> and it can be extended as needed:
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+Handbook
>
> You can propose changes and request Wiki account if you have updates in
> mind.
>
> (unless someone trolls out for them to be removed so he can say they
> "don't exist"..)
>
>
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