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From: Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <khp@pip.dknet.dk>
To: Linux Documentation Project writers  <LDP-L@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Pressure on the LDP
In-Reply-To: <199507091643.MAA10949@thokk.cs.cornell.edu> from "Matt Welsh" at Jul 9, 95 12:43:33 pm
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Matt Welsh writes:
> 
> In comp.os.linux.announce article <3tohib$rpv@kruuna.helsinki.fi>, 
> Adam Richter writes:
> >
> >SUPPORTS FREE SOFTWARE
> >
> >        For every copy of Third Edition of The Linux Bible sold, one
> >pretax dollar (which is a full dollar in most situations, and always a
> >full dollar for nonprofits) is set aside to support free software and
> >free documentation development.  Of this, 25% will be donated directly to
> >the Linux Documentation Project.  The other 75% will be paid in
> >proportion to page count, directly to LDP authors whose works are made
> >freely redistributable under terms not more restrictive than the GNU
> >general public license by September 1, 1995.  Money corresponding to
> >the pages not freed by that time will be donated to the Free
> >Software Foundation.
> 
> [...]
> However, I don't approve of your tactics, and I think that you forget
> that these works are still copyrighted by us, and we still have the
> ability to control their distribution in whatever ways we choose.
> If the LDP as a whole were to decide that Yggdrasil and the FSF may
> not publish, distribute, or otherwise use any material from any LDP
> works, then I believe your income would drop sharply, and the "Linux
> Bible" would cease to exist. You depend on the Linux Bible. We don't 
> depend on you. You need to take a very serious look at your position 
> vis-a-vis the products of the volunteer writers, programmers, testers, 
> and developers of Linux software and documentation before you attempt 
> to pressure anybody into changing the copyright on anything. 
> 
> [...]
> In short: back off.

Matt, I wholeheartedly support your statement.


Kai
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