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
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- 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