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How to relicense a piece of documentation

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Description

Sometimes we have to move a piece of documentation from one place to another, and these places have incompatible licenses.

Write a guide how to do that most effectively.

Context: https://github.com/NixOS/nix.dev/issues/485#issuecomment-1503163664

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the context in issue #485, especially the linked comment, and inspect the existing documentation structure in this repository. The work is complete when the repository has a guide explaining how to move documentation between places with incompatible licenses and how to do so effectively.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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