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<li><em>To</em>: Randy Kramer &lt;<A HREF="mailto:rhkramer@fast.net">rhkramer@fast.net</A>&gt;</li>
<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: New HOWTO</li>
<li><em>From</em>: David Merrill &lt;<A HREF="mailto:dcmerrill@mindspring.com">dcmerrill@mindspring.com</A>&gt;</li>
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Randy Kramer wrote:
&gt;
&gt; I'm just thinking (or not thinking ;-) ) out loud -- if an author cannot
&gt; be located after some reasonable efforts, and if his document is
&gt; unlicensed, could we modify his document but maintain his name as the
&gt; original author along with a sort of disclaimer statement explaining
&gt; that we tried the following means of locating &lt;author&gt; but could not
&gt; contact him, we would still like to find him, so if you know him or can
&gt; provide any hints we would appreciate it. In the meantime, we have
&gt; taken the liberty of updating his document, the current maintainer is
&gt; _______. I would then list everything we know about the author and what
&gt; steps we tried to locate him.
&gt;
&gt; IANAL, but this would seem to demonstrate a good faith effort to find
&gt; the original author to seek his permission. And, if he had made his
&gt; document available to the LDP (or made it freely downloadable from any
&gt; other web source) it would seem to demonstrate that his intent is not to
&gt; sell his document for profit, rather his intent is to contribute to the
&gt; general welfare.
Unfortunately, good faith efforts have nothing whatsoever to do with
copyright law.
The only real answer is a free license. That's what we should be trying
to get every author to do.
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<li><strong><a name="04439" href="msg04439.html">New HOWTO</a></strong>
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<li><strong><a name="04440" href="msg04440.html">Re: New HOWTO</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> &quot;David Merrill&quot; &lt;dcmerrill@mindspring.com&gt;</li></ul></li>
<li><strong><a name="04473" href="msg04473.html">Re: New HOWTO</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lawyer &lt;dave@lafn.org&gt;</li></ul></li>
<li><strong><a name="04475" href="msg04475.html">Re: New HOWTO</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> &quot;David Merrill&quot; &lt;dcmerrill@mindspring.com&gt;</li></ul></li>
<li><strong><a name="04479" href="msg04479.html">Re: New HOWTO</a></strong>
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