discuss: Linux Documentation needs much work and ideas
Subject:
Re: Linux Documentation needs much work and ideas
From:
Michael Mol ####@####.####
Date:
26 Dec 2012 20:02:41 +0000
Message-Id: <CA+czFiAPK+6Qi1U+5pzoVeyn1iAEHEKvXe2wzFGuiPrRmU9GEg@mail.gmail.com>
That would require copyright assignment. I don't believe TLDP does that.
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Paul Hendricksen
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> The submission, regardless of the license is the property of the TLDP and is
> subject to the hosts licenses. Right?
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Paul Hendricksen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lawyer ####@####.####
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 12:01 PM
> To: jdd
> Cc: ####@####.####
> Subject: Re: Linux Documentation needs much work and ideas
>
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 06:56:23PM +0100, jdd wrote:
>> our worst problem is the licence problem many document still have no
>> or unfriendly licence not allowing modification
>>
>> jdd
> At one time (many years ago) the LDP stated that any Doc submitted without a
> license was considered to be published under the free LDP license (aka
> "boilerplate license). Then LDP changed it's policy to require that any Doc
> submitted have a license. But a few docs. may have been accepted by
> mistake.
> The mistake is due both to the author not having a license and the LDP for
> accepting it.
>
> But LDP should adhere to the rules. It will not likely cause any serious
> problem to do so since the Docs. in question are likely obsolete and need
> rewriting. Copyright law can be enforced with criminal penalties although
> it doesn't happen often.
>
> David Lawyer
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