discuss: Follow up on request to adopt Threads FAQ
Subject:
Re: Follow up on request to adopt Threads FAQ
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
25 Apr 2003 06:44:13 -0000
Message-Id: <20030425064416.GA1079@lafn.org>
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 18:54:25 -0400 Morgon Kanter ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> > Seems like the current maintainer's email is undeliverable (as in, it
> > doesn't even exist anymore). I'll take this document over, if no one
> > has any objections.
>
> Generally, if a document is on the unmaintained list, it's there
> because the author specifically has said that he/she no longer
> wishes to maintain the document, or the author cannot be contacted.
> If you have made a good faith effort to contact the author,
> I believe you can take over this particular document. Perhaps David
> Lawyer can comment on this (from a licesning perspective).
Well, it seems that the FAQ has no license. So by default it's
copyrighted. But since the author submitted it to LDP to give away,
anyone can get a copy and the author has implicitly given LDP the right
to distribute it. But there's no license to modify it and LDP permits
disallowing of modification. It would be best to try to find the
author. I just emailed him at linuxsocket.org but this may be dead.
David Lawyer
> I *think* this author has also authored a book or two:
>
> Linux Socket Programming by Sean Walton
> ISBN: 0672319357
> http://www.linuxsocket.org/
>
> I'm not 100% certain it's the same person.
>
> I can put your name on the list as the new maintainer. Note that
> the FAQ is in HTML right now and should be converted to SGML or XML
> when updated.
>
> thanks in advance for your efforts,
