discuss: SCO copyright violations on LDP
Subject:
Re: SCO copyright violations on LDP
From:
Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
Date:
6 Aug 2003 22:24:53 -0000
Message-Id: <1060209049.10180.63.camel@mysticchild>
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:15, David Horton wrote:
> Wouldn't it go against the spirit of *free* documentation to exclude
> SCO? I have no love for their recent tactics, but isn't *free*
> documentation for everyone to use? To begin excluding certain groups
> just because we happen to disagree with them is a dangerous path to
> take. Should we then put similar limits on free speech? "You can say
> whatever you want until we disagree with you," is not really free
> speech. Just as, "you can modify or copy this document until we
> disagree with you," is not really free documentation.
Well, David, normally you'd be right, except the way it looks, SCO
appears to be trying to re-license documentation that already contains
copyrights and licenses which do not condone re-licensing. It appears
as though SCO may be trying to copyright these as their property,
subject to their terms, when there are already applicable copyrights and
licenses.
And most importantly, ther are authors who have not given SCO permission
to do so.
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Tabatha Marshall
Web: www.merlinmonroe.com
Linux Documentation Project Review Coordinator (http://www.tldp.org)
Linux Counter Area Manager US:wa (http://counter.li.org)
