Disclaimer: I am not a committer, discount accordingly. I am 100% in support of this. I think it would be a bit unpleasant to remove the docs that were included with 1.1.3, but as I understand it, that is not your intention.
It sounds like you're saying that you are going to write a book and sell it. Coincidentally, it's a book about a piece of software that you are quite familiar with, because you wrote a very large portion of it. I don't think you have any intent of preventing the development of a good free manual. I'm even guessing that, if someone writes one and contributes it to the ASF, you would be happy to see it added to the Log4j package. It sounds like you're just saying that you don't intend to be one of the lead contributors to the free manual. How could anyone find fault with this? In the software side of Log4j you've already made an enormous contribution to Open Source software. Even if you assume that computer scientists have an obligation to the community which must be payed in Open Source or Free projects, you have clearly already exceeded it. On the obligation angle, I feel that the greatest debt owed to the community is to other Open Source developers. I find it highly unlikely that those who contribute to the Open Source community will *need* the high end manual (as we tend to be tinkerers who like to learn by experimentation). I also think that as Open Source developers who would like to be able to spend more time on our Open Source projects, we should be delighted to see Ceki making some money in a parallel channel to his (colossally successful) project. JM2C Bob On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ceki [iso-8859-1] Gülcü wrote: > > > Hi All, > > 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. > > > -- > Ceki Gülcü - http://qos.ch > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- "I need some water" "How much?" "Enough to put a fire out" "Where do you want it?" "On the flames" ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
