discuss: new documentation license
Subject:
Re: new documentation license
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
25 Nov 2003 08:54:14 -0000
Message-Id: <20031125085338.GA2133@lafn.org>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:02:49AM +0100, jdd wrote:
> David Lawyer wrote:
>
> >I said that I like a license that would prohibit "display" of advertising
> >with the doc. The display can happen if advertising is added to the doc
> >by the organization displaying it. Or it can be added by use of frames
> >in HTML. Or an ad can appear when you click on viewing the next part of
> >the doc. Or ... I would prohibit all of them. Copyright law gives the
> >copyright owner the right to control the the display of the work.
>
> Dear David,
> as I read your letter I see an advertisement right at the bottom of it.
> It's the Logo of a computer make "AS..."
I meant display presented by electronic or other technical means. I
first just wrote "electronic means" but someone might come up with a
non-electronic display. After all, the old teletype machines can be
used for browsing the Internet and they were electro-mechanical devices,
converting from serial to parallel by a mechanical distributor. But this
is getting off-topic. And I suppose the advertising restriction should
include any audio as well.
>
> of course _you_ can't see it, but _I_ do (it's sticked on my laptop
> screen)
>
> how can your, on the wordl, prohibit such thing and have your doc
> displayed anywhere?
>
> you can prohibit advertisement _inserted_ in the _source_ of the doc,
> what else?
If that's all one can do, it will be of almost no help in stopping the
use of ones freely donated work for advertising purposes.
David Lawyer
