discuss: mail to nonfree authors
Subject:
Re: mail to nonfree authors
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
8 Dec 2001 06:38:45 -0000
Message-Id: <20011208073109.GK6766@lupercalia.net>
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:04:11PM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:52:38PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> > When is that mail to non-free authors going out, Guylhem?
>
> Please don't do this unless you are really sure that you are mailing to
> authors that have non-free licenses which are non-free in the Debian
> sense. That means mainly that they must be modifiable to be free. I
> think my licenses are cataloged as non-free when they are actually free.
> All 4 of mine are shown in the database as LDPL when they are actually
> my own license. They are free in the Debian sense.
Colin and I are doing a doc-by-doc walkthrough before the mail goes
out to prevent that problem. Already he's cleared many documents.
Things might not be as bad as we feared.
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
What Microsoft is doing is patently illegal. Think about it. If you want to
build computers, you've got to ask Bill's permission. If Bill wanted to
triple the price on Windows, what would you do? You'd pay, you wouldn't
have any choice.
--Oracle Corp Chairman Larry Ellison
