discuss: licence problems
Subject:
Re: [discuss] licence problems
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
22 Sep 2008 12:48:13 +0100
Message-Id: <20080920073214.GF2343@davespc>
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:10:42PM +0200, jdd wrote:
> jdd a ?crit :
>
>> NB: G. Aznar was the last LDP leader before his resignation two years ago
>
> Guilhem said: (translation below)
>
> Bonjour
>
> Pas besoin d'aide juridique, les lois sont claires... par d?faut un
> auteur retiens tous les droits, donc ces documents sont ? exclure
> Les documents dont les auteurs sont injoignable ne peuvent ?tre
> chang?s de license, donc a exclure aussi.
>
> La GPL est peu adapt?e ? la documentation - pourquoi d'ailleurs la
> GFDL a ?t? ?crite. Mais si 99% des documents sont sous cette license,
> ?a peut ?tre logique de faire avec
>
> Suggestion :
> - lister les documents "suspects" (auteur inconnu/injoignable)
> - demander aux auteurs joignables de changer de license pour la license
> retenue
> - re?crire les documents "suspects"
>
> Pas facile quand m?me...
>
> Guylhem
>
> translation:
>
> no need for juridical help, the laws are clear... by default an autgor
> have all the rights, so documents with unreachable authors have to be
> excluded, the licence can be changed, even if there is none. So
can't ??
> documents have to be kept unmodifiables
>
> GPL is not well fitted for documentation, so the GFDL, but we could cope
> with if necessary
>
> and Guilhem say it's necessary to re-write the unmodifiable documents
>
> in fact, previous Manifesto said only:
>
> "Anyone may copy and distribute (sell or give away) LDP documents"
>
> nothing about modifying.
Not exactly. It says:
"It is not required that the documents be modifiable, but it is encouraged."
> hence my proposal of making the page read only and adding a discussion
> page, we could add to the howto on the mirrors.
>
David Lawyer
