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<li><em>To</em>: Richard Stallman <<A HREF="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Critique of draft GNU Free Documentation License v1.0</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Jorge Godoy <<A HREF="mailto:godoy@conectiva.com.br">godoy@conectiva.com.br</A>></li>
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:57:00PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> If someone makes only minor modifications, I don't think they have a
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> right to an invariant section
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> If someone makes only minor modifications and adds an invariant section
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> which you want to remove, you can go back to the previous version.
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> You would lose his modifications, but since they are minor, that is
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> no great loss.
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But wouldn't it create lots of versions of the same license? If you
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want some characteristc added, lets say, in the "third" rewrite _with_
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the modifications you didn't agree with? You'll have no choice but
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accept that modifications to use the license.
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> To resolve this problem I think
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> the license should require that the license would be attached to the
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> document whenever the document becomes unmaintained.
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> The passive voice ("be attached") avoids stating who the actor is.
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> In this case, that question is crucial. Who would this be
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> a requirement on? In what circumstances? To do what?
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I see that as a community requirement. The maintainer of the document
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would, as a last modification, communicate that hes not going to
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support it anymore and he's making it available for others to
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maintain. The license, IMHO, should always be with the document. If
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not within that, at least in another file named "LICENSE" (all caps,
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as usually).
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> I can't see any possible answers for those questions.
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> As I see it, if we want the license to be included
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> in all copies once the document is unmaintained,
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> the only way to accomplish this reliably is to put the
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> license in all copies when they are made.
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As I said before, it should be in all copies even when it's being
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maintained. A reference to another file would be enough, I think.
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> I'm still not clear who the "publisher" is for documents that are not
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> printed on paper but are just posted at websites.
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> The publisher is the person or organization who is responsible for the
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> distribution of copies to the public. In the case of a web site,
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> the publisher is whoever puts it on his web site.
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This "who" stands for the person who put it on the web site or the
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organization who hosts that? I think it's the first one, but in some
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cases, it should be both them.
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<li><strong><a name="01000" href="msg01000.html">Critique of draft GNU Free Doucumentation License v1.0</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> <dave@lafn.org></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="00992" href="msg00992.html">Re: Critique of draft GNU Free Doucumentation License v1.0</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="00976" href="msg00976.html">Re: Critique of draft GNU Free Documentation License v1.0</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org></li></ul></li>
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