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<h1>Re: Critique of draft GNU Free Documentation License v1.0</h1>
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<li><em>To</em>: Kim Lester <<A HREF="mailto:kim@dfusion.com.au">kim@dfusion.com.au</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>: David Lawyer <<A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 01:07:27 -0800</li>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:15:40PM +0000, Kim Lester wrote:
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> This is outside my domain and perhaps I should just keep quiet but...
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> With specific regards to the proposed clauses for derivation of
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> works I have these comments:
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> Placing the burden of contact on someone trying to derive a work
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> from a "free" published text makes it just too hard. People
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> change email addresses/move states/countries etc. Some don't have
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> access to email. This rule hobbles those who might most benefit
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> from using the documents. Impractical clauses are worse than
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> no clauses.
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Here is what it now says in our "Boilerplate License":
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Except for translations, send a copy to the previous
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maintainer's url as shown in the latest version.
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This is not much of a burden. If the email is wrong, you've still
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complied with the requirement. If there is no url for the maintainer
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(unlikely) you have nothing to do.
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Even though it's not much of a burden there are reasoned arguments
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both for and against it. Although I originally supported it I'm now
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neutral on it for this short license.
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For a longer license, I still think it's a good idea. Such a license
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would exempt from this requirement any modification made for internal
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use within an organization. It might also try to avoid the following
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loophole: Suppose A is the author and B and C want to modify A's work
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but conceal what they have done. So B modifies A's work just a little
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and sends a copy of it to A. B then becomes the maintainer of this
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modified work. Then C takes it from B and makes major modifications
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that C and B don't want A to know about. C only needs to notify B. A
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similar case would be where B and C are not in cahoots with each other
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and major changes are made that A doesn't find out about.
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