Re: [ode] [rms@gnu.org: Re: Updating the OpenContent license]


Aaron Turner (aturner@linuxkb.org)
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 23:55:39 -0800 (PST)


Is there any precedence for requiring a license to be a part of (actually
in-line) a document? Personally, I've never encountered this- not to say
I'm an authority on the matter, but I think the reaction you're getting
from people such as myself is that as far as we know nobody else is doing
it and it seems to be good enough for them. Why does this need to be
different?

--
Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://www.linuxkb.org/
Because world domination requires quality open documentation.
aka: aturner@vicinity.com, aturner@pobox.com, ion_beam_head@ashtech.net
The difference between `Unstable' and `Usable' is only two characters: NT

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Richard Stallman wrote:

> I think the problem is where do you draw the line. 1 page? 5? 10? > > I don't see a need to draw a line at a specific place. The smaller > the document, the more it seems wasteful to add a long license, and > the less important it is what the license might be (since it is not > hard to redo a small job from scratch anyway). If you are the author, > you can decide which is worth doing. > > By the way, I am working on a paragraph to permit a collection > of manuals to come with just one copy of the license. That should > help many, though not all, situations with small manuals.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Sat Jan 22 2000 - 03:57:29 EST