discuss: Proposal for revised license and license requirements.
Subject:
Re: Proposal for revised license and license requirements.
From:
Rick Moen ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jun 2005 19:02:43 -0000
Message-Id: <20050617190242.GE5977@linuxmafia.com>
Quoting Edward Cherlin ####@####.####
> Well, then, I withdraw the part about a contract. It's back to
> the license. We can write a license, and if we agree on it,
> require that authors use it, or any other that we approve, in
> order to get their work published on our server.
Worth a try, I guess. My sense is that LDP has been reluctant in the
past to impose strong requirements on documentation licensing because of
a genuine diversity of views, among authors and likely authors, about
what is desirable in such licences.
I'm not sure that LDP has decided to substantially change that stance.
Guylhem did address the matter some months back, but I don't recall
anything like a clear policy change.
> Actually not. I am envisioning a publisher consisting of an
> informal group of like-minded people with control of a server,
> not a conventional publisher acting as an IP owner or licensee
> and trying to control the use of printed publications.
Ah, thank you for clarifying.
> Copyright title is almost irrelevant in publishing.
Since you raise that matter, nitpick: It definitely matters for licence
enforcement.
> How do we manage our document licenses today? Who enforces them?
> How?
If the latter's a real question and not rhetorical, I'll be glad to answer it,
but I'm not clear on whether you're actually posing the question.
I don't understand the former question at all, and so cannot address it.
> Are there any substantive objections to my idea? We can put
> documents out saying that they may not be modified without
> permission of the author, EXCEPT that the author grants LDP
> permission to use the content to create further versions under
> the same kind of license.
One problem sufficient to kill the idea, under existing circumstances, I
noted in my earlier post: LDP has no existence as an entity in law. It
cannot be granted "rights"/"permissions".
