discuss: Automount mini-HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Automount mini-HOWTO
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
19 Jan 2002 14:13:27 -0000
Message-Id: <20020119140658.GA22791@arborlon.riva.ucam.org>
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 06:06:15PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:42:41PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Apparently the Automount mini-HOWTO is unmaintained: it's listed in
> > /authors/unmaint.html, and when I tried to forward a Debian bug report
> > to its author the mail did indeed bounce. Although I don't use
> > autofs/amd enough to maintain it myself, could I send a patch to submit@
> > to fix the minor problem that was reported?
>
> It has no license statement in it. Do we interpret that as meaning the
> author intended our default license, or not? If so, then you can work
> on it, if not, it's a dead document and must be rewritten or
> discarded.
While no licence normally means no permission, my personal opinion is
that in the context of the LDP it can reasonably be taken to mean the
"default licence". I don't know if anyone else shares this opinion.
--
Colin Watson ####@####.####
