There has been a report that some people are tampering with
the form and content of LOST snippets, in personal signatures,
and/ or mis-utilising the same for publicity.
I would like to clarify my stand on the subject on this forum
(in public), and solicit comments on this issue.
Bish
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Clarifications on the usage of LOST database
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Background:
o LOST is has been born out of LIH. I consider more of a contr-
ibution of LIH to the Linux community, more than my personal.
There are 12 more LIH-folk with me getting the act together.
It is not me alone ...
o It began in Aug 2k1 with Suresh, Sriram, Rajesh and myself
getting together to make some documents together which would
help the growth of Linux in India, and Linux in general. It
was Suresh, who hosted the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
o It was my idea to break information into small bits, so that
they could be a source of passive education/ enforcement in
the form of LOST snippets as we know today. Since there was a
good amount of response, and more people like Binand, Dasu,
MDK and Raghu joined in, things progressed fast ....
o I have been putting up things on my homepage at geocities, and
the versions are still 0.x (beta). The LOST project has been
accepted by sourceforge, and soon would be shifted there. At
the current moment, the things are still fluid and amendments
are being put up every 3 or 4 days !
o I have also written to David Merrill (Linux Documentation Proj-
ect) for official status under the LDP flag.
Regarding form of LOST snippets/ licenses:
o All individual snippets have a credit bar having the e-mail id
of the submitter. Since the info itself is from documents and
software already holding various licenses, no other credits
are claimed for the snippets themselves. The credit bar should
NOT be interpreted as copyright, merely an acknowledgement for
the contribution.
o The distribution license for scripts is GPL(v-2) and GFDL for
the LOST title and compilation. The GPL copyright is being
held by the "LOST Project", of which I am the co-ordinator.
o Copyrights for scripts/ programs along with the LOST tarball
are held by the individual authors.
Usage:
o Anybody is free to use and distribute it in terms of the above
licenses.
Hosting and broadcasting:
o I have no objections to anybody hosting and popularising the
LOST snippets since it meets the common end of Linux awareness
and spreading of the usage of Linux ... However, the following
must strictly be complied with:
a) The spirit of GNU/ GPL is not compromised in any way.
b) There will be no alterations to form/ content as envisaged
in the above licences ... I assume the section between the
two colons ":" at top and bottom to be the limits of each
snippet.
c) LOST snippets CANNOT be used for commercial purposes,which
would include use of the term LOST for advertising or sale
in any form as LOST ... The tarballs may be bundled with-
out change in form on any CD/ distro/ magazine or web-site
under terms of GPL and GFDL.
d) LOST snippets are NOT to be used as a vehicle for spamm-
ing ... by appending material to them for personal or
commercial publicity.
e) A mirror of the tarballs (presently being put up at geoci-
ties and soon to be shifted to sourceforge), without ANY
changes to the original tarballs is acceptable.
Bish
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Sub : Finding a file LOST #079
The fastest way is to use "locate" command (e.g. $locate ping)
This accesses a front-compressed filename database, created as
root using the command "updatedb". /usr/bin/frcode is used to
do the compression. See man updatedb & locatedb for details ..
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