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<li><em>To</em>: Terry Dawson &lt;<A HREF="mailto:terry@albert.animats.net">terry@albert.animats.net</A>&gt;</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Gary Lawrence Murphy &lt;<A HREF="mailto:garym@canada.com">garym@canada.com</A>&gt;</li>
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&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; &quot;T&quot; == Terry Dawson &lt;terry@albert.animats.net&gt; writes:
T&gt; ... In many ways I actually favour this idea (relicensing), but
T&gt; it will mean that some existing documents will have to be
T&gt; excluded because permission to relicense the documents can not
T&gt; be obtained.
If the contract is on the inbound traffic, this is not a problem:
Those docs in the collection prior to installing the contract-gate did
not sign any contract so they cannot be bound by it. For outbound
docs, the &quot;warrantee of freedoms&quot; doc can include a &quot;grandfathering
clause&quot; to follow the &quot;all docs grant permissions X, Y Z&quot; with a (b)
clause stating that docs older than such and such a date are not
guaranteed to be compliant.
On the question of modifications, there is no conflict with the LDP if
modification is forbidden: If a doc has mod restrictions, we do not
touch it. Simple as that. Like any reference library, we accept it
graciously, add it to the archive, and forget about it: We can't
change it, 'nuff said. The doc *might* die of loneliness, but because
there is no _exclusivity_ clause in our contracts with the authors, we
are always free to replace it (or compliment it) with a second,
independent doc should the need and opportunity arise.
Unless disk space is at a premium, having unrevised 'old' docs can be
an advantage: A new 'innd' doc is not likely to focus much on uucp,
but I might have an application which needs the state-of-the-art at
some past date. The best solution would be CVS revisions (btw- when
is a doc revision tagged?) or an XML database (yeah, dream on!), but
the good old &quot;just keep the old edition&quot; works for public libraries
and should work for us as well.
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<li><strong><a name="00380" href="msg00380.html">RE: A restrictive(?) LDP License</a></strong>
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<li><strong><a name="00381" href="msg00381.html">Re: A restrictive(?) LDP License</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> Gary Lawrence Murphy &lt;garym@canada.com&gt;</li></ul></li>
<li><strong><a name="00382" href="msg00382.html">Re: A restrictive(?) LDP License</a></strong>
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