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:
Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
Date:
23 Dec 2003 09:41:28 -0000
Message-Id: <1072172459.18318.95.camel@mysticchild>
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 23:27, David Lawyer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:29:19PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> > 2. The http://www.tldp.org/COPYRIGHT.html URL should contain a list of
> > pointers to the various preserved versions.
>
> It would be confusing to have more than one license there. Furthermore,
> explaining that licenses are lost wouldn't help much either. This is
> getting to be old history and as time goes on there will be fewer docs
> with this license. Another problem is that the version 2.0 (and
> possibly previous versions) has a serious loophole in it which I'll
> explain in another post. [snip]
It might not be bad to find a place to put them for historical value,
but I agree, they shouldn't be where we offer our recommendations.
Maybe a link pointing to older versions and a short note saying anyone
using them should really consider opting for one from a more recent list
of recommendations.
Tab
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Tabatha Marshall
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