discuss: User Authentication Howto - license issue?
Subject:
Re: User Authentication Howto - license issue?
From:
Togan Muftuoglu ####@####.####
Date:
3 Apr 2004 20:24:42 -0000
Message-Id: <20040403202700.GF6713@dinamizm.com>
* Floris Lambrechts; ####@####.#### on 03 Apr, 2004 wrote:
>Machtelt Garrels wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Floris Lambrechts wrote:
>However.
>If I can't manage to contact the author, we (both I and tldp) are
>violating his copyright. I see 3 things we can do
>
>1. leave it like it is
>It's not very likely that the author is going to sue, and if he does,
>there's not much he will get.
How do you know he is not going to sue and how do you come to the
conclusion that he can not get much ? In legal cases it is not a good
way to move ahead with assumptions. Facts are solid
>Copyright violations happen all the time, and they are only a problem
>if the copyright holder feels there's a problem.
Just because someone else jumps off a bridge that does not mean IMHO
that you should also jump off
>
>2. roll-back to version 0.5 (CVS revision 1.1)
>Which does not contain my fixes but is not updated and *can not* be
>updated because the author disappeared.
>
>3. remove this howto from tldp
>(Because it can not be maintained)
>
>I like none of the options :-(
>Hopefully somebody sees another solution?
Write a full howto with a better license or do not disappear when you
prefer to have a strict license.
--
Togan Muftuoglu
