David Chisnall wrote:
We don't want people distributing books
/ PDFs of our documentation and putting the copyright notice in the
documentation for the documentation (what would that even be? 'To read
this book, place in front of eyes and use brain to translate symbols
into concepts?') We want them to place it in wherever is appropriate
for copyright notices, typically the inside cover.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this.
I think the 3rd clause may not be a good idea (which is why the
FreeBSD folks pulled it out), as people may want to publish the
documentation in dead-tree form, and they would have to ask us if they
can put 'Etoile Project' on the 'Etoile Project Documentation'... I'm
not sure what else they would call it and it could be a logistic
hassle if they do need to get in contact with us. Thoughts?
I think the reason they removed this is that it doesn't necessarily make
sense. How can you make a product derived from (in the legal sense of a
derived work) documentation?
A person can take the documentation and make changes/add content. We do
not want people to use our name to *endorse* their changes.
A book would count, for example. Do we
want the Étoilé Project name used to endorse the selling of books about
Étoilé? Actually, we probably don't, unless we can read them and agree
that they meet a certain standard of quality. We do, however, want it
to be able to use the name Étoilé.
For example, someone writing a book 'Étoilé Uncovered!' would be fine,
but having them say 'The official reference to the Étoilé environment'
would not.
I don't think the license would apply to the name Étoilé. It would only
apply to the names of the individuals who wrote the documentation.
If someone writes a book called 'Étoilé Uncovered!' it is *their book*
and *not* a derivative of someone else's documentation.
On the other hand if someone wants to publish our documents with some
changes/additions they *need* to ask our permission to use our name to
endorse it.
However if they want to publish our documentation *without* any
changes/additions the clause does not apply to them and therefore they
can use our name to endorse it.
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