discuss: Guides page
Subject:
Re: Guides page
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
16 Feb 2001 20:17:54 -0000
Message-Id: <20010216151654.D2949@lupercalia.net>
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:55:32AM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:31:26AM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:46:55AM -0800, Steven Peck wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I was scrolling through your guides page http://www.linuxdoc.org/guides.html
> > > and I noticed that one item was severely outdated.
> > >
> > > The RUTE Users Tutorial and Exposition v0.3 Last update March 2000 is on
> > > http://rute.sourceforge.net at version 0.8.5 and available in many
> > > formats(html, pdf, ps)
> > >
> > > I do not know your process for how you get submissions, etc, so I though I
> > > would notify here. I origanally found thr RUTE guide on the LDP site and
> > > later stumbled across the more updated version on sourceforge.
> >
> > Thanks for the info. I will follow up on it.
>
> This document isn't free even by the most generous standards. Take a
> look at the license. I'm not following up on this; I'd rather see the
> document pulled from the LDP. The license is just too restrictive for
> me. For example, it would be a violation if I were to print a copy for
> my mom - only the intended reader can initiate a hard copy. It cannot
> be distributed publicly, so we couldn't give it out at LWE or another
> conference.
Update: I heard back from the author, let him know of our concerns,
and basically told him if it wasn't freely redistributable we
wouldn't publish it. He says it is being published by prentice-hall,
so depending on his contract with them, he may not even be able to
license it properly.
I'll let you know the final resolution.
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