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<h1>Re: Licensing issues</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: Alessandro Rubini <<A HREF="mailto:rubini@prosa.it">rubini@prosa.it</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Licensing issues </li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Donnie Barnes <<A HREF="mailto:djb@redhat.com">djb@redhat.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:38:58 -0400</li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: <<a href="msg00138.html">19990918174029.27358@morgana.systemy.it</a>> from Alessandro Rubini <rubini@prosa.it> on Sat, 18 Sep 1999 17:40:29 +0200.</li>
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> > The problem with NOT contacting the author directly is that changing the
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> > document without the authors permission is often copyright infringement.
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> That's one reason why we need that all LDP documents are absolutely
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> free. The documents must allow modifications (with the usual
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> disclaimers of non-endorsing etc, and maybe with an exception about
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> non-techinal parts, but this is controversial, as already noted on
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> this list -- or was it the older one?).
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>From your own paragraph above you note that there are reasons to *not*
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allow modification to a document (or at least part of it) yet you still
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assert that all docs should be freely modifiable. This is silly.
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Folks, look. This has been beaten to death here and on many other
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mailing lists. Documentation is not software. Sure, in some cases it
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is *like* software when folks are collaborating to work on it. Most
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of the time that is *not* the case, however. Where it is the case,
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folks can certainly license their docs so that they are modifiable if
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they wish.
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But I assert there are plenty of valid reasons that people may *not*
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want their document modified, and there is NO REASON that the LDP should
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enforce that LDP docs be modifiable. The current manifesto outlines
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that they must be redistributable, and I think this is the only reasonable
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real restriction we need to place on the LDP authors.
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I don't care to go into the debate on why we need to avoid this *again*.
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Suffice it to say that documentation IS NOT software. Leave people the
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ability to choose and let the LDP have the most useful documentation it
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can reasonably have.
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--Donnie
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Donnie Barnes <A HREF="http://www.donniebarnes.com">http://www.donniebarnes.com</A> djb@donniebarnes.com "Bah."
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Challenge Diversity. Ignore People. Live Life. Use Linux. 879. V.
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