discuss: Manifesto: Proposed deletion of publishing info from 2008 Manifesto
Subject:
Re: Manifesto: Proposed deletion of publishing info from 2008
Manifesto
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
6 Feb 2016 18:45:52 +0000
Message-Id: <20160206184649.GD32107@daveslinux>
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:40:13AM -0800, Martin A. Brown wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> >Here's part 7. of the old manifesto. The newer manifesto has deleted it.
> >I propose we delete it.
>
> I support the proposal.
>
> >Publishers should understand most all of this without having to be
> >told. What LDP docs have been published recently? When the LDP got
> >started the Internet was not widely used and publication was a good
> >way for distribution.
>
> Agreed.
>
> >Perhaps it could be included by reference after updating it.
>
> Could you dereference your first and second 'it' pronouns in the
> above sentence? I don't quite grok what should be included by
> reference in what....
I meant that information and policy on publishing could be in another file
with a link to this file from the manifesto. But upon thinking it over, I
think it best to keep all major policy in the manifesto.
>
> >Two of my howto's were published in/as books and I was never
> >notified nor sent a copy ins spite of the following in the
> >Manifesto. But the defunct address to email is in Australia (au).
> >What do you think?
>
> Defunct address in Australia is mildly amusing.
It's part of our history. Terry Dawson maintained our mailing list from
Austrlia and when he killed the list (after we had gotten another list
location in the USA) all the archives from Australia disappeared. These
archives contained the flame war over a license that Eric S. Raymond
proposed for LDP and I was leading the opposition to this license (based
on the "Open source definition". I once thought that I should write a
howto on licenses but never did. Perhaps I'll write one now although I've
forgotten a lot and there's new info on the topic that I haven't followed.
> ><snip of quote from old manifesto>
David Lawyer
