discuss: Documentation licensing
Subject:
Re: Documentation Licensing
From:
Rahul ####@####.####
Date:
12 Apr 2004 18:52:31 -0000
Message-Id: <20040412185225.1815.qmail@web8001.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Hi
> Interestingly, those legal advisors did "get" free
> software.
> They just had a life-cycle view of copyrights --
> they felt
> that if we maintained a HOWTO then we should hold
> strict
> control over the contents. And when we wished to
> cease
> maintaining the HOWTO we should assign the copyright
> to
> the LDP.
LDP is not a legal entity like FSF which can hold
copyrights. Assigning it to the LDP leader might be a
valid alternative. If you want to have strict control
it would be better to license it as such and host it
yourself.
>
> From their view, a forkable document was all
> downside.
> For example, we could be sued for defamation, but
> could
> offer no mitigation by modifying the
> currently-distributed
> version of document.
>
Its pretty easy to see that you are not responsible
for someone else modifications. The CVS makes that
transparent enough.
regards
Rahul
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