discuss: Thread: howto cope with old HOWTOs licence

I would like we set a policy for the use of old HOWTOs in the wiki. of
course there is problem only if the author is no more reachable.

If I understand well, if any of the listed free licence is used, no
problem, we keep it and make is writable in the wiki.

we may have to found a maintainer to keep the document updated, this
can be done by setting in the document a tag asking for one and waiting.

for any other licence, we have to examine the HOWTO individually.

What I already proposed is to write it in the wiki read only and add a
comment page.

What can be the licence of the comment page? is it a derivative work,
even if it hold only short reference to the original text?

examples:
*typos or orthograph mistakes: if the meaning is not obscure, probably
better not take care of it.

*errors or changes: can we say:

"the XX paragraph is now obsolete. One have to read:
......new text, we little or no include of the original one"

is it possible to have these comments under default LDP licence?

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Quoting Jean-Daniel Dodin ####@####.####

> What can be the licence of the comment page? is it a derivative work,
> even if it hold only short reference to the original text?

In USA and pretty much all other jurisdictions of my acquaintance, short
excerpts for reasons of criticism and a small list of other uses qualify
as "fair use", and thus are not violations of copyright even if not
specifically authorised.

> is it possible to have these comments under default LDP licence?

It's possible to have thos comments under any licence the comment author 
wishes and permits.

Rick Moen a écrit :
> Quoting Jean-Daniel Dodin ####@####.####
> 
>> What can be the licence of the comment page? is it a derivative work,
>> even if it hold only short reference to the original text?
> 
> In USA and pretty much all other jurisdictions of my acquaintance, short
> excerpts for reasons of criticism and a small list of other uses qualify
> as "fair use", and thus are not violations of copyright even if not
> specifically authorised.
> 
>> is it possible to have these comments under default LDP licence?
> 
> It's possible to have thos comments under any licence the comment author 
> wishes and permits.

well, so we probably set this solution as accepted. Good

jdd


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