At 01:28 10-09-01, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>
> > At 00:27 10-09-01, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> > > Oh yeah, not to mention the license is pretty bad :) I give up all
> > > rights
> > > to the material that I write (more so than an assignment of rights,
> > > which is standard for contributors to commercial texts), and you
> > > don't even get payed for it...
> >
> > Kinda like the FSF assignment. This is so that we can publish these docs
> > in books free of charge, without having to run after everybody who
> > contributed. Don't worry, we don't get a nickel out of it.
> >
>
> (taken offlist, although your certainly free to bring it back on
> list)
>
> I know, more what I have a problem is that you take away the right
> for the docs to be freely published in a commercial context, I wouldn't
> mind losing rights to the work, as long as the other end of the
> spectrum allowed for completely unrestricted redistribution.
Hmm, and doesn't the open documentation license or whatever its called
allows that??
Note, we didn't choose the license for the docs. Tobias and Till
did. Frankly, it surprises me that here, too, there are problems, but I
guess it was to be expected statistically :)
Zeev
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