discuss: Licenses not free. Debian. (was Re: Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Licenses not free. Debian. (was Re: Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
9 Dec 2001 04:39:34 -0000
Message-Id: <20011209053156.GA15769@lupercalia.net>
[snipped explanation of licenses and their history]
Thanks for helping with this, David, you know more about these than I
do.
Colin, I propose you work right in the database and assign the proper
license to each document, and we will help with that. I will add new
licenses for each of these.
I retitled all the existing LDPL license entries as "OLDLDPL" so we
know we have to go through them all. They should be assigned one of:
LDPL if they contain or point to the existing /COPYRIGHT.html,
which is free.
LDPCL for the LDP Copying License in LDP-COPYRIGHT.html
HOWTOL if they copied the HOWTO-INDEX license
BOILERPLATE if they copied the manifesto boilerplate.
David, have I covered all the bases? Before we begin? ;-)
I created a "help" page for licenses in the database. David, please
take a look at it. I used your email; I didn't think you'd mind.
Please send me anything that needs to change in it so I can update it.
Feel free to wget it and send me a modified version.
Ideally it should have an excerpt from each license, so I can open
that page in another browser window and use it as I work in the
database.
Thanks again for your help!
David
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
Collection Editor & Coordinator http://www.linuxdoc.org
Microsoft is banking on Windows 2000 to be a Trojan Horse - they want to get
this into companies and then start exploiting inter-relationships with the
product. But I always say: beware of geeks bearing gifts.
--Michael Gartenberg, Gartner Group Vice President.
