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<li><em>To</em>: Gary Lawrence Murphy <<A HREF="mailto:garym@canada.com">garym@canada.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: But where do we stand on OPL?</li>
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Hello,
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You CAN restrict people. You just can't CHARGE people.
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Personally I like the OPL.
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Poet
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Date forwarded: 18 Sep 1999 13:33:09 -0000
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To: "Mr. Poet" <poet@linuxports.com>
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Copies to: ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org
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Subject: But where do we stand on OPL?
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From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com>
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Date sent: 18 Sep 1999 09:32:14 -0400
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Send reply to: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com>
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Organization: TeleDynamics --- the Art of Being There
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Forwarded by: ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org
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> I had an email from Alessandro this morning. His understanding is that
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> a document published under the OPL (esp OPL with the option to reserve
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> book printing rights) prevents a document from being included in the
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> LDP. Is this true? What is the stance of the LDP on the open publishing
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> licence?
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> While I can agree with people like Richard Stallman that the very best
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> work can only come out of GPL-style restrictions, it is also true that
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> some wonderful software is less restrictive. For example, the BSD
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> licences and other have no restrictions against arbitrary restrictions
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> in the licence, and even the Linux kernel allows for (but does not
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> distribute) non-GPL modules.
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> If we take a 100%-free stance as dogma, we miss an opportunity to have
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> the LDP include professionally edited and corporately sponsored
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> documents; allowing for some "mostly free" content might require the
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> multi-tier classification I wrote about before, but provides a means
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> for the LDP to leverage rather than compete with publishers like ORA,
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> IDG and MCP (who, on the other hand, freely leverage the LDP to pad
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> thier books)
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>
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> --
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> Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
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> Business Telecom Services : Internet Consulting : <A HREF="http://www.teledyn.com">http://www.teledyn.com</A>
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> Linux Writers Workshop Archive: <A HREF="http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-hack/">http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-hack/</A>
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> "You don't play what you know; you play what you hear." -- (Miles Davis)
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