discuss: Documentation licensing
Subject:
Re: Documentation Licensing
From:
Rahul ####@####.####
Date:
11 Apr 2004 16:39:05 -0000
Message-Id: <20040411163842.36126.qmail@web8002.mail.in.yahoo.com>
--- "Rodolfo J. Paiz" ####@####.#### wrote: >
At 14:55 4/8/2004, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > --- Emma Jane Hogbin ####@####.####
> wrote: >
> > > However, the LDP will *never* change a license
> or
> > > remove a document because of its license without
> > > written permission from the author (in the case
> of
> > > changing the license).
> >
> >I didnt suggest otherwise.
I dont think i ever suggested changing licenses
without prior permission from the authors which isnt
even legal.
> I disagree that commercial redistribution (or wider
> dissemination of any
> kind) is necessarily the goal of any kind of
> project.
Doesnt it help?. Do you find anything wrong about that
argument?
> course wider distribution would give its documents a
> chance to help more
> people... but if immediate access to that greater
> audience comes at the
> expense of reducing the quantity or quality of the
> content LDP has worked
> hard to provide, then I believe LDP should not make
> that choice EVER. Let
> us always step forward, never back. (And that would
> be a HUGE step back.)
>
why would commerical distribution lower quality?.
We could take precautions against that.
>
> Fine. I will agree to what is contained in this one
> brief paragraph, and as
> mentioned elsewhere this is already being
> contemplated as a criterion for
> accepting future submissions.
>
> Now... how does this (or anything else) in any way
> justify your proposal of
> removing any and all existing documents which do not
> allow modifications
> without authorization from the author?
The time taken to rectify a forkable document is very
different from the time taken to rewrite a non
modifiable document from scratch. It isnt as important
as ensuring that future documents do not contain
restrictive licensing but you are not even considering
that the current situation is problematic from the
viewpoint of maintainability. Arbitrary licensing is
problematic no matter how you put it.
regards
Rahul
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