Panther96 wrote:ashledombos wrote:No, in fact since the beginning, there is no legal issues, JMCroset representing Mandriva SA and I, representing the association, signed a license agreement
Then I assume it has only been just rumors circulating around? If so though, may I ask why the official wikipedia page is under ¨Investigation of potential copyright issue¨ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMandriva .
Sure It's explained in Wiki page, the fact is that the authors of the artilce copied exactly the content of our blog, which is in CC-by-NC, and there is a robot crawling articles and looking if there is similar text somewhere. And this bot found that there is similarities between this page http://blog.openmandriva.org/en/about/ and the wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =594199431 , as explained by Wikipedia
The previous content of this page or section has been identified as posing a potential copyright issue, as a copy or modification of the text from the source(s) below, and is now listed on Wikipedia:Copyright problems (listing):
http://blog.openmandriva.org/en/about/ (Duplicate Detector report)
What I mean by ¨nuked¨" is that there is nothing there other than broken links or links to nowhere. Human activity seems non-existant. The barren forums are wondering where are the updates http://forums.openmandriva.org/en/discu ... enmandriva are. The basic wiki pages are missing https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/Users/First_Time in the English documentation, and the French one is even worse https://wiki.openmandriva.org/fr/Accueil (werent the French the largest Mandriva community)?
Not anymore, we are two French in the community (Oh I may be unfair, I succeeded in inviting a long time French Mandriva user, but not yet very involved . All French users who left Mandriva support Mageia or another distro. And yes, we definitely need more contributors.
Is there anyone or any project at least to get these pages filled up? I would say documentation is what makes or breaks a distro, which I believe Manjaro has recognized well http://wiki.manjaro.org/Main_Page . I'd be willing to help out with the En/Fr pages this summer if you guys need more hands.
Great! There is Davide Garatti who started to make the work here: http://www.linux-corner.it/Archivio/it/ ... ratti.html He is in cooker mailing list, or I can give you his email privately
Soon we'll open the official doc website, but it's true that there is lot of work to do, and we are not a lot of contributors
Now I'm sure there's more to the Cruella de Vil story than we might be aware of. I still wish Mageia the best; its still a free and mandriva family distro after all. It would be nice if they became sister projects rather than rivals. Openmandriva=more adventurous/innovative approach Mageia= solid conservative approach. Are there many or any developers who work on both teams? I could easily see the possibility of both teams working together on the Draketools project, and other innovations to allow the entire mandriva family to keep their edge. Hell, even invite the PClinuxOS people while your at it.
Even if Mageia and OMA don't (yet, maybe one day) share lot of things (in fact almost anything), we're respectful of each community. Of course, each people may have his reason to like or dislike one or the other community/project... I'm not sure there is yet contributors to both communities, but maybe i missed some information Anyway, during Fosdem, we were neighboors. (For a quick proof I have found this picture on Rosa wiki http://wiki.rosalab.ru/ru/index.php/%D0 ... _43551.jpg you can see in white the OpenMandriva booth and in black the Mageia booth, and you can just see Anne behind, half hidden
Anyways, I also wish you guys luck with the 2014 LX release. The linux world needs you guys to succeed!
Thanks Panther96