discuss: Problems with WWW-HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Problems with WWW-HOWTO
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
15 Oct 2004 07:20:39 -0000
Message-Id: <20041015072643.GB888@davespc>
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 06:04:05PM -0600, doug jensen wrote:
> The current maintainer of the WWW-HOWTO is listed as Mr. Poet. I was
> looking at the WWW-HOWTO and something seemed out of place, starting
> with section 9 of the document. Upon further research sections 9-16.1 of
> the WWW-HOWTO are copied from the Intranet-Server-HOWTO, the biggest
> changes being; removing the author (Pramod Karnad), removing the "Copyright
> and License" section, and adding a "Copyright information" section
> attributed to {poet}. Looking at the CVS, there is only the current
> version of the WWW-HOWTO available, so I don't know how or when the changes
> were made.
>
> Additionally, there are now two licenses within the document; the GNU
> GPL, and an old LDP license. Plus the complication of the removal of
> the licensing of the Intranet-Server-HOWTO, which was the GNU FDL.
>
> There is an old pre Mr. Poet, version of the WWW-HOWTO at:
> http://hrast.pef.uni-lj.si/docs/en/www_howto/WWW-HOWTO.html
> Personally, I like that version of the document, without Mr. Poet's
> minimal changes which were made to that portion of the -current-
> document. The older version contains some interesting historical
> information, which seems better than the -current- version which is not
> being maintained by Mr. Poet.
>
> Can the current WWW-HOWTO be removed? Hopefully reverting to a version
> similar to http://hrast.pef.uni-lj.si/docs/en/www_howto/WWW-HOWTO.html.
I hope so. I mean putting the old version in "unmaintained". It seems
to be obsolete. I searched it for "certificate" and got nothing. I
think it is likely wrong when it says that one can't use apache-ssl for
commercial uses. I think that much (or even most) of the content is
only of historical interest. I'm not really familiar with web servers
and I've only sampled the WWW-HOWTO but it looks like it's too obsolete
to be of much help to anyone except a historian. If no one else
responds, I'll contact G. Ferg and ask him to do this.
> It should be noted that Mr. Poet is apparently the same person
> responsible for the Net-HOWTO which was recently reverted.
>
> To summarize the major problems:
> 1. No attribution to the author, Pramod Karnad.
> 2. Removal of the Intranet-Server-HOWTO licensing.
> 3. Coping of Intranet-Server-HOWTO without proper attribution.
> 4. Introduction of a new license (an old version of LDP license).
> 5. Multiple licenses, without clearly stating how they are applied.
> 6. Lack of proper maintenance.
>
> P.S. Not sure, but it seems like some of this may have been mentioned
> before on this list.
>
> --
> Doug Jensen
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David Lawyer
