discuss: LDP Licence at http://tldp.org/COPYRIGHT.html, and changing in-place
Subject:
Re: LDP Licence at http://tldp.org/COPYRIGHT.html, and changing in-place
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
20 Dec 2003 07:05:19 -0000
Message-Id: <20031220070432.GB405@lafn.org>
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:27:02PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> I know people get a bit frayed by licence fights. To reassure people:
> This isn't one.
>
> I'm _intellectually_ curious about what the differences are between LDP
> License 2.0 and any prior versions, completely aside from the LUG HOWTO.
A few years ago I tried to find out this and was unable to come up with
anything much. When I first joined the list in mid 1998, there was a
lot of debate about licenses going on and I think it was about 2.0. I
thought that the list was being archived since someone wrote to just
look in the archives for past debates on licenses. But then someone
else emailed me that the list wasn't archived at all.
The 1998 mailing list was ####@####.#### (in Australia and perhaps
created by Terry Dawson). The full text of licenses was in some
postings, but I never saved them since I thought it all was being
archived. Perhaps someone else saved them on their PC.
Well, there is what seems to be an older license but it has no version
number on it. I think that prior to version 2.0 there were version
numbers so this is an older one. It may have co-existed with the
versioned series. Copies of it are still on the Internet and at LDP.
Perhaps it's 1.0. Note that it is also the license for a certain guide,
which is confusing.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/LDP-COPYRIGHT
David Lawyer
