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<li><em>To</em>: Poet/Joshua Drake <<A HREF="mailto:poet@linuxports.com">poet@linuxports.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</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>: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:49:07 -0700</li>
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<li><em>Cc</em>: David Lawyer <<A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A>>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A>, Richard Stallman <<A HREF="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</A>>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A></li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: <<a href="msg03590.html">Pine.LNX.4.21.0007301909340.4393-100000@crazypenguins.commandprompt.com</a>></li>
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<li><em>Mail-followup-to</em>: Poet/Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com>,David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org>, ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org,Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</li>
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On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 04:14:30PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
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> >A major defect of the existing policy is the case where a document is
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> >not maintained, but prohibits modification without permission of the
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> >author. We wind up with obsolete documents that sometimes can't be
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> >updated. I think (in theory) that we need to change our policy of
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> >what we will accept and from now on not accept documents that can't be
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> >modified if the author fails to maintain them to reflect new software
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> >(and new hardware in some cases).
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On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 07:25:31PM -0700, Poet/Joshua Drake wrote:
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> This is not a defect as when the document becomes unmaintained and/or
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> obsolete it need to be "re-written" anyway. Therefore there would be no
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> copyright issues.
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In some cases where it is totally obsolete, yes. But in other cases
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only a relatively small percent needs to be changed to bring it
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up-to-date. It's a lot more work to do it all over again from
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scratch.
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> It is possible, if one has the means to create a publishable quality
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> document. If it is truly publishable quality, the fact that it is on the
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> Net, will not effect it. It may actually help the sales of a printed book.
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I think that for documents that are about rapidly changing technology,
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many people would rather get them by electronic means. Print becomes
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obsolete too fast. I think it would ultimately hurt sales if it's in
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a easy-to-use format.
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> Personally I like electronic documentation, but I don't like it when I
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> have to wade through a 500 page PDF.
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Agreed
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> >Thus I don't think Poet's proposal would bring authors much financial
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> >benefit and it would go against our principles of free documentation.
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> I can refute this in several ways. One of the reasons some of the LDP
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> authors do not make money at their documentation is that it is not very
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> good.
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True, but this supports my argument that it wouldn't bring much
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financial benefit.
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David Lawyer
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<li><strong><a name="03590" href="msg03590.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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