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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Richard Stallman <<A HREF="mailto:rms@gnu.org">rms@gnu.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 04:35:36 -0600 (MDT)</li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: <<a href="msg03587.html">20000730161430.B135@localhost</a>> (message from David Lawyer onSun, 30 Jul 2000 16:14:30 -0700)</li>
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I think (in theory) that a license should at least allow distributing
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a modification if the original author failed to adequately maintain
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the document. Who is to judge what "adequately maintain" means?
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There is no objective way to judge whether someone does "adequate
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maintenance", because it is a subjective question. But this criterion
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has an even worse problem: if there are different versions of the
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program, which version or versions should the document "adequately"
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describe? Would you really want the responsibility to decide?
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This shows that "failure to adequately maintain" won't work as a
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criterion. It doesn't provide what the LDP needs. The problem caused
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by non-free documents has to be solved some other way.
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The best way to solve it is to insist that all new LDP documents be
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free. Then the LDP won't have to worry about obtaining permission
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to find a new maintainer for an orphan document.
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What's more, if people have made a modified version of the program,
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and the LDP decides that version is not important enough to support,
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the people who develop that version will be free to do the work themselves
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to adapt the document to their version.
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<li><strong><a name="03430" href="msg03430.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Poet/Joshua Drake <poet@linuxports.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03439" href="msg03439.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@bigfoot.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03444" href="msg03444.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03466" href="msg03466.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@bigfoot.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03502" href="msg03502.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Merrill <dcmerrill@mindspring.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03519" href="msg03519.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03552" href="msg03552.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</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="03554" href="msg03554.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Jason Williams <jason@compsoc.man.ac.uk></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03559" href="msg03559.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@bigfoot.com></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03572" href="msg03572.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</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="03587" href="msg03587.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org></li></ul></li>
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