discuss: Linuxquestions.org wiki
Subject:
Re: Linuxquestions.org wiki
From:
ramana ####@####.####
Date:
9 Sep 2004 01:50:10 -0000
Message-Id: <413FB76F.9050003@intraperson.com>
David Lawyer wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:50:53PM +0000, ####@####.#### wrote:
>
>
>>Hi, I'm a moderator for the linuxquestions.org Wiki
>>(wiki.linuxquestions.org), a collaboratively-edited repository for all
>>things Linux. Our work is licensed under the Creative Commons
>>(attribution and share-alike variant) license. We'd like to
>>incorporate documents from the LDP, but most of the documents, as
>>licensed, can't be released under the Creative Commons without the
>>copyright holder's consent. I'm writing this email in attempt to get
>>that consent. I'm aware that the LDP is not the copyright holder of
>>the documents it hosts, but I thought that this mailing list would be
>>a good place to start.
>>
>>
>
>What you are doing, if it succeeds, is to make a fork in the LDP. Then
>there would be one version of a doc at the LDP and another on the wiki.
>This is just plain wrong. Someone looking up info at LDP should be able
>to also view the wiki doc from LDP. But even this has serious problems.
>If one goes to an LDP site and finds 2 different docs with the same
>title (one a wiki) which one do they look at? Thus there should only
>be one document.
>
Dear Dan Marshall,
I don't have any reservations with any of your ideas or work as long as
I don't have to assume 'God will reply one day to my mails' ;-)
Regards
ramana
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