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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:rkiesling@mainmatter.com">rkiesling@mainmatter.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>: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:15:59 -0700</li>
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On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 01:49:34PM -0400, Robert Kiesling wrote:
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> Apologies also for the U.S. centrism, but works that are published
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> here are implicitly copyrighted. I'm not sure what the laws are in
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> other countries. That is, works written in the U.S. (whatever that
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> means) do not need to contain an explicit copyright notice in order to
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> receive the protections of the relevant laws. An author has to
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> explicitly relax the copyright restrictions, by including in the
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> document, license terms of his/her own choosing, like the ones used by
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> LDP authors.
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Or implicity relax the restrictions. For example, if you put your
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work on the Internet, the fact that it must be copied in order to be
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viewed implies that you have given permission to others to make a copy
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of it. This is the case whether or not you have put a copyright
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notice in it or not. Beyond reading it on-line, it's not clear if one
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may copy it in other ways. There is also a "fair use" provision of
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the copyright law. One book I looked at thought that you could also
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make one print copy on a printer without infringement of copyright.
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Can one save such a work to their harddrive? Well, if it's OK to
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print it, it should be OK to copy it to disk. Since lawsuits are not
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being brought for infrigement for doing the above, it seems that it
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may be OK but it's not entirely clear.
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> Considering that there now seem to be about an equal number of
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> commercial and non-commercial Linux manuals available, both by LDP and
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> non-LDP authors, and that (correct me if I'm wrong here) posting a
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> document on the Web has the same legal force as a hard-copy,
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> commercial publication, it seems to me completely irrelevant,
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> presumptuous, unethical, and perhaps even illegal, that a
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> non-publishing trade group should specify or even recommend the
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> license terms that a document should carry.
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>
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I don't think LDP is "non-publishing trade group". We do publish on
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the Web on our site (which is widely mirrored). Any site can select
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what it will put on that site. I think it's part of freedom of speech
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and the press. The Web is like the press and the press (or a website)
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can (within limits such as obscenity) select and publish whatever they
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choose. Thus LDP has every right to select and put on it's website,
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only those docs that meet its criteria for licenses, format, quality,
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etc.
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David Lawyer
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<li><strong><a name="03556" href="msg03556.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="03564" href="msg03564.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> jdd <jdanield@dodin.net></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="03565" href="msg03565.html">Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal</a></strong>
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