Venkat,
Don't worry. I won't do anything idiotic. Ceki At 15:44 10.01.2002 -0500, Sonnathi, Venkat Ramana wrote: >I agree with Jon. Please don't take away documentation from the project. >Please do feel free to write the book and sell it but don't force the users >to buy it. > >Thanks, >--Venkat. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jon Skeet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, January 10,2002 2:14 PM >To: Log4J Developers List >Subject: RE: [POLL] Commercial documentation > > >> I am pondering whether it is possible to earn revenue by offering >> log4j documentation online, a bit like what JBoss is trying to >> do. Needless to say, the log4j API (the software) will always be >> licensed under the Apache Software license and would include some >> basic documentation. However, writing good documentation is very time >> consuming and I'd like to see if I can get paid to do it. >> >> This documentation will be based on the long log4j manual which was >> until recently part of log4j 1.2 alpha3, alpha4 and alpha5. However, >> the latest alpha6 does not include it. This document carried a clearly >> visible copyright notice. It was always copyrighted by me and not the >> ASF. >> >> Do you think this is an honorable approach? Your comments on the >> subject are welcome. Thank you. > >I personally don't like the idea. It feels like it goes against the spirit >of the open source movement in general. I'd like to think that good >documentation should come with good software - the fact that it generally >doesn't isn't a reason to follow that model. > >I rather suspect that if you go this way, others will write a good manual >which *is* open source and part of the kit/website. I would try to support >such an effort, although I'm in no way a technical writer. As the sole >committer for the Log4j project you could, of course, avoid putting it into >CVS, but I feel that would splinter the project quite severely. > >I know it's nice to get money for things, and I'm in no way averse to >writing code for a living (otherwise I wouldn't do it), but I don't think it >goes along with the spirit of the rest of the project. > >I know that people *are* writing books for profit based on Ant, Struts etc, >and see no reason you shouldn't do this as well - but not by pulling decent >documentation away from Log4j leaving only minimal documentation in the >project. > >Jon > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Ceki Gülcü - http://qos.ch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
