Actually the complete story of wodev is that it got started with the
blessing of Ernie Prakabar (WO marketing manager at the time) and
with his active participation. The purpose was to create a wiki site
where it would be possible to comment Apple documentation and add to
it. Ernie wanted a quick launch so that we could have some
significant content for WWDC that year I wrote the software over
Christmas (it is still visible in WODev) and simultaneously we got
the contract cleared through the lawyers. Unfortunately when it went
for signature by the VPE it got torpedoed (Nobody has ever told me
who the VPE was so I let you guess). Result we just trashed a project
that had support from the WebObjects community inside and outside and
had strong buy in from the Apple documentation group that was very
interested in exploring new ways of documenting developers tools.
The word of the wise is DON'T even think of copying Apple documentation.
Pierre
On 27-Aug-06, at 11:24 AM, Anjo Krank wrote:
> Last year when I asked about this - it was about Pierre's site,
> commenting the WO docs - I got the "Apple will defend it's IP to
> the last man standing, and we don't you dare mess with us! Harrrh!"
> response.
>
> I don't really believe their position has changed so much this year.
>
> Cheers, Anjo
>
>
> Am 27.08.2006 um 19:52 schrieb Mike Schrag:
>
>> Daryl Lee actually talked about this as a possibility at WWDC, but
>> this would be a copyright violation at the moment, so I recommend
>> that you do NOT do this. We really can't host it on the WOLips
>> site if you do, at least. If and when Apple approves the use of
>> their content for this, we can, but we have to get a release from
>> them first.
>>
>> ms
>>
>> On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Dustin Withers wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I'm not much for writing documentation but there is quite a big
>>> thread over in WebObjects Dev about the lack of Apple docs for
>>> WOLips. So I was wondering if it would be possible for me to
>>> take Apples beginning WebObjects docs (ex. http://
>>> developer.apple.com/documentation/WebObjects/Web_Applications/
>>> index.html )
>>> and re-write them for WOLips. I would be completely copying
>>> Apples docs for the most part so I don't know if it would be
>>> legal. Also I would be doing it for the WOLips project and
>>> posting it to the WOLips wiki so I don't know if it would cause
>>> problems for the project. I'd like to do this for the Open
>>> WebObjects movement and for myself to learn.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> -dustin
>>
>
>
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