discuss: hijacking someone else's howto
Subject:
Re: hijacking someone else's howto
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
25 Jun 2003 17:37:17 -0000
Message-Id: <20030625173705.GA32575@riva.ucam.org>
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:31:22AM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
> If the licenses permits modification, then there's no problem.
> Otherwise you would need to write another HOWTO on the same topic from
> scratch. You can't copy parts of the old one nor paraphrase sentences
> from the old one. Facts are not copyrightable but the method and
> organization of expressing facts is. So your new HOWTO should be
> based in part on new "facts" and completely rewritten and reorganized.
>
> You could read over material on the subject, including the old HOWTO and
> then write a HOWTO on this topic based on your notes and memory without
> looking at the old HOWTO. The name could be say Hebrew-2-HOWTO to
> distinguish it from the original.
The Hebrew-HOWTO has no licence as far as I can see, which I assume
means that it falls under a default LDP licence allowing modification
(since the author allowed it to be published by the LDP and didn't state
any wishes of his own).
At least, I think that's what we agreed last time this was discussed.
--
Colin Watson ####@####.####
