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<h1 class="title"><a name="AEN2"></a>The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News</h1>
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<b>Issue Number :</b> 23<br>
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<b>Publication Date :</b> 2005-06-08<br>
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<dt class="c1">Table of Contents</dt>
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<dt>1. <a href="#tldp-discussions">Discussions on The LDP lists</a></dt>
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<dt>2. <a href="#updated-docs">Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</a></dt>
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<dt>3. <a href="#tldp-mirrors">Mirror information update</a></dt>
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<dt>4. <a href="#tldp-contribute">The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</a></dt>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-discussions"></a>1. Discussions on The LDP lists</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Proposal for revised license and license requirements.<br></span>
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<p><span class="rss:item">David Lawyer proposed modifying both the LDP Boilerplate License and the Manifesto for the purpose of allowing modification to documents in all cases where the author can't
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be located. David, initiating the discussion, said, <span class="QUOTE">"While I support the right of an author (in some cases) to not allow modification without the author's consent, what about the
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case where the document needs revision and author can't be located? I think our manifesto needs to be changed to require that any license must allow modification if the author can't be located after
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searching on the Internet."</span> He said that a no-modify option to The LDP's Boilerplate License be included with it, to be effective only if the author selects this option: Modification would be
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prohibited unless the author can't be located. Furthermore, while LDP would permit this option we would not encourage it as is currently stated in the manifesto: "It is not required that the
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documents be modifiable, but it is encouraged." Further, people had comments on David's proposal. The archive thread is <a href=
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"http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:9369:200506:ajdblngbheknbbnkmcla" target="_top">http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:sss:9369:200506:ajdblngbheknbbnkmcla</a></span></p>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="updated-docs"></a>2. Updated HOWTOs, FAQs and Guides</h1>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Mendel Cooper's <a href="http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html" target="_top">Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide</a>, An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting
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is now at v3.5. Plenty of things have changed since the last version v3.4, a complete change log is available from <a href="http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/Change.log" target=
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"_top">http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/Change.log</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span class="rss:item">Stephan Reuter has started the translation of the Debian Jigdo mini-HOWTO to German. The document should be available from Stephan's collection at <a href=
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"http://linux.shiningdeath.de/howto-de.shtml" target="_top">http://linux.shiningdeath.de/howto-de.shtml</a> very soon.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-mirrors"></a>3. Mirror information update</h1>
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<p>In case you have been seeing 404 errors from our mirrors, please check that things are all set right now. After the move of our data to another diskset, some things had been forgotten, and the
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rsync server configuration was out of date, but not anymore.</p>
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<p>The following are the latest additions to our <a href="http://www.tldp.org/mirrors.html" target="_top">list of mirrors</a>:</p>
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<li><span class="rss:item"><a href="http://ldp.mirrors.tailsdiapers.com/" target="_top">http://ldp.mirrors.tailsdiapers.com/</a> maintained by Timothy Anderson in Newport News, VA, US and updated
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daily.</span></li>
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<h1 class="sect1"><a name="tldp-contribute"></a>4. The LDP/LDPWN mini-HOWTO</h1>
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<p><a href="http://tldp.org/" target="_top">The Linux Documentation Project</a> (TLDP) is working on developing free, high quality documentation for the GNU/Linux operating system. If you want to
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help TLDP, consider joining <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org">discuss-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>></tt> (a low volume discussion mailing list). You can also send
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your suggestions to <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">feedback@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</p>
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<p>The LDP Weekly News is compiled, edited and published by Machtelt Garrels (Tille) and Y Giridhar Appaji Nag (Giri) with help from several other people. To receive this newsletter weekly in your
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mailbox, subscribe to the <tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:news-subscribe@en.tldp.org">news-subscribe@en.tldp.org</a>></tt> mailing list. Back issues are available at <a href=
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"http://tldp.org/ldpwn" target="_top">http://tldp.org/ldpwn</a></p>
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<p>Help us create this newsletter. We need volunteers who follow the community (mailing lists, newsgroups, web channels) and report events related to free software documentation. Write to us at
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<tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:feedback@en.tldp.org">feedback@en.tldp.org</a>></tt>.</p>
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