discuss: Licensing on the wearable howto
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Re: [discuss] Licensing on the wearable howto
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Date:
14 Dec 2006 16:40:53 -0000
Message-Id: <d772c3dc0612140812l55b779a8p18f6d2752c7f8997@mail.gmail.com>
Hi all,
As the current maintainer of the document in question (in as much as
one can maintain an uneditable document), I have no objection to
writing a new one and making the licensing less restrictive.
Are documents in TLDP required to be GFDL licensed?
-Abe
On 12/14/06, gerardo arnaez ####@####.#### wrote:
> One questions I have is why is the document still being hosted?
> it should be taken down and something else should be written to replace it.
>
>
> On 12/13/06, David Lawyer ####@####.#### wrote:
> > > Wednesday, 13 December 2006 00:48, ####@####.#### wrote:
> > > > The wearable HOWTO, located at
> > > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Wearable-HOWTO.html, has a section entitled
> > > > "Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks" which contains the following
> > > > text:
> > > >
> > > > This means that all sections of the document are Invariant Sections.
> > >
> > >
> > > > The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
> > > > are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice
> > > > that says that the Document is released under this License. If a
> > > > section does not fit the above definition of Secondary then it is not
> > > > allowed to be designated as Invariant.
> > >
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:49:59AM +0900, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> > > For lazy readers: The entire licence may be void. My layman
> > > recommendation is to cease distributing the document until the author
> > > agrees on less ambiguous licensing terms.
> >
> > I would suggest that we keep distributing it until we either can
> > locate the author (and get him to fix it), or until a replacement is
> > obtained. Since the author sent it to us with a license that allows
> > distribution, and should have known that we distribute docs sent to
> > us, I think it's OK to keep distributing it. The very fact that he
> > licensed it under GFDL implies that the author allows it to be
> > distributed.
> >
> > However, it seems to me that it shouldn't be modified, as that was the
> > author's intention. So one can read this and other docs about the
> > subject and then write a new howto from scratch. It's not allowed to
> > just paraphrase the existing doc.
> >
> > David Lawyer
> >
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