Paul M. Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:35:45 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Wade Hampton wrote:
> Martin Wheeler wrote:
> >
> > der.hans wrote:
> >
> > > I think it's better for the author/maintainer to maintain the document
> > > taking corrections from the editor than the other way around. This allows
> > > for the fastest content correction.
> >
> > I thoroughly agree.
> >
> > > In cases where the author can't or
> > > won't do the appropriate markup the editor could become the
> > > maintainer.
> >
> > I actually hope for a tighter symbiosis than that -- writer must be able to work
> > with editor must be able to work with writer, or we get nowhere at all. Each
> > should be perfectly happy with the other's contribution to the common text.
> >
> > > This opens lots of those license issues as well :(.
> >
> > Unfortunately -- yes.
> > I'm all in favour of the "saying nothing at all is preferable to a licence which
> > is open to being misconstrued" approach. As far as I'm concerned, this is all about
> > producing open (i.e. restriction-free) texts. There *is* a case for turfing out
> > or placing in a separate category anything which has the slightest restriction
> > placed on it -- a` la debian non-free packages. Doesn't prevent anyone from
> > accessing and using them, but they live in a carefully marked-off world of their own.
>
> Maybe a DGPL -- GPL for documents, like the LGPL, plus some other
> alternatives.
> DGPL might allow translations provided original is provided, plus allow
> changes
> provided original is provided?
>
> Maybe in the author's kit, include 3-4 licenses (GPL, DGPL, BSD, none,
> ...),
> make recommendations, but in the end, it has to be up to the author of
> the
> document.
Actually, there is such a license already, if I understand you
correctly. I think it's called the "Open Document License" or
somesuch. O'Reilly is putting out "books" under this license now. I wish I
could give you a link, but I can't remember where I read the license.
Paul M. Foster
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