discuss: RTC Quickstart Guide into TLDP?
Subject:
Re: RTC Quickstart Guide into TLDP?
From:
Rick Moen ####@####.####
Date:
24 Sep 2015 08:40:59 +0100
Message-Id: <20150924074150.GB16685@linuxmafia.com>
Quoting Daniel Pocock ####@####.####
> I'm just wondering if the Real-Time Communications Quickstart Guide
> would be welcome in the Linux Documentation Project?
>
> http://rtcquickstart.org
>
> The aim of the guide is to help people install RTC (SIP, XMPP, TURN) on
> Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora.
Have you given a thought to licensing of your document? As presently
posted, you state your copyright title aka ownership (which is of course
always appropriate), but by omission reserve to yourself all rights to
redistribute, create derivative works, or maintain the work if/when you
cease to do so. Which is of course absolutely your right, as it is for
any author.
Last I heard, LDP as part of the LDP Manifesto
(http://wiki.tldp.org/LDP%20Manifesto) was willing to accept Linux
documentation that is under a variety of free documentation licences, as
detailed here: http://wiki.tldp.org/LdpWikiDefaultLicence
In no way am I being critical of the current state of your Guide in
mentioning the above. It's very common for people to write
documentation without providing for other persons having the licensing
right to assume maintenance of a work and prevent it from being
permanently unmaintained and unmaintainable (the main reason for LDP's
licence policy, I believe), and it's equally common - and understandable
- for authors to have qualms about granting such rights over their
creations.
I certainly like your work on the Real-Time Communications Quick Start
Guide, though I've just now started reading it.
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