discuss: Proposal for revised license and license requirements.
Subject:
Re: Proposal for revised license and license requirements.
From:
Stein Gjoen ####@####.####
Date:
14 Jun 2005 10:57:21 -0000
Message-Id: <42AEB728.8000307@mail.nyx.net>
David Lawyer wrote:
> PS: This topic has been discussed previously, but no resoluting has
> ever been reached.
>
> While I support the right of an author (in some cases) to not allow
> modification without the author's consent, what about the case where
> the document needs revision and author can't be located? I think our
> manifesto needs to be changed to require that any license must allow
> modification if the author can't be located after searching on the
> Internet.
I understand the problems and agree on the problems with advertising
also mentioned earlier. License and copyright discussion never seem
to resolve. Perhaps that is a more general rule, Debian has also been
troubled by this and no resolution in sight there either.
Instead I would like to apply the book metaphor as a solution: the
author writes the contents and the publisher takes care of the
covers, blurb, distribution and more, somewhat how TLDP operates.
So when a document needs updates but the author cannot be located,
would it then be possible for TLDP, like a publisher, to attach an
errata sheet with the original document?
TLDP will hopefully soon implement the categorising which also is
part of the attachment to the document. A simple front cover would
be useful, with features like
- status of document (Guide/HOWTO, recent/old, new/established...)
- status of author (active, inactive, whereabouts not known)
- classifications and categories
- related documents
- ranking, if we feel it would not be too controversial.
- links to document in several formats (HTML, PDF, ...)
- links for sending in feedback
- errata/comments, possibly Wiki-comments
Hopefully this solution will let us avoid changing the license.
Regards,
Stein Gjoen
