discuss: Thread: [translation] cannot contact authors

Hi,

Our japanese co-worker has tried to translate the
following documents:

Enterprise-Java-for-Linux-HOWTO (Gary Meyer, ####@####.####
XML-RPC-HOWTO (Eric Kidd, ####@####.####
3Dfx-HOWTO (Bernd Kreimeier, ####@####.####

He sent mail to these authors, but G.M. and E.K. have
not replied yet, and the address of B.K. was unreachable.

We think it's OK for XML-RPC-HOWTO and 3Dfx-HOWTO
which are covered by GFDL and LDPL, respectively.

Unfortunately, however, Enterprise-Java-for-Linux-HOWTO
claims that it need the consent of the author for the
distribution of modified version.

Will you give us a suggestion for this?

For convenience, the license descriptions of these
documents are added.

Regards,
-- 
NAKANO, Takeo
Appl. Phys., Engr. SEIKEI Univ.
E-mail : ####@####.####
http://surf.ap.seikei.ac.jp/~nakano/


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Enterprise-Java-for-Linux-HOWTO

<sect1>Copyrights and License 
<p>

Copyright (c) 1999 Gary Meyer. 

This document may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions
 set forth in the LDP License at 
<htmlurl url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/COPYRIGHT.html" name="http://www.linuxdoc.org/COPYRIGHT.html">.
  This  document must not be distributed in modified form without the author's
 consent. 

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XML-RPC-HOWTO

<!ENTITY license "
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      version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant
      Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. You may
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      Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.</para>

      <para>This manual contains short example programs (<quote>the
      Software</quote>). Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to
      any person obtaining a copy of the Software, to deal in the Software
      without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
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      TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
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">
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3Dfx-HOWTO

1.6 Distribution Policy 

Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 by Bernd Kreimeier. This document may be
distributed under the terms set forth in the LDP license at
sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/COPYRIGHT.html.

This HOWTO is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the LDP license. This document is
distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any
warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose. See the LDP license for more
details.