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Why is the Ansible documentation cloned in the documentation for these modules?

Open sunbladehub opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

The documentation for these modules is here (note RedHat 2019 Copyright notice at bottom):

https://terryhowe.github.io/ansible-modules-hashivault/modules/list_of_hashivault_modules.html

which is styled like and copies content from the official Ansible documentation. For example:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/hashi_vault/index.html

Isn't it illegal to copy content that has a copyright on it? Why was this done?

sunbladehub avatar Aug 10 '22 15:08 sunbladehub

I'm not a lawyer, but from my observation, the author can hold a copyright on material licensed in an open source project and what matters is the license of the project for example https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/licenses

TerryHowe avatar Aug 10 '22 15:08 TerryHowe

Ok, but why style it like the official website when it is not the official website? Why not just use your own styling or write your documentation in the absence of the official documentation? It seems like an odd thing to do. Somebody in a rush (overlooking the domain) may misinterpret it as the official documentation website.

sunbladehub avatar Aug 10 '22 16:08 sunbladehub