(DRAFT 4) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-20 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
After suggestions by Glenn Maynard, I rewrote most of the document to make it simpler and remove redundancies that were repeated over and over ;- I repeat my point: repeated exposure to American legal texts is bad for non-native speakers ;-))) The first two questions were merged into a

Re: (DRAFT 4) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-20 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 20 de Abril de 2005 ás 11:20:36 -0300, Humberto Massa escribía: s/software/programs and\/or libraries/g Darn, I had managed to avoid it in the previous version :-) -- Jacobo Tarrío | http://jacobo.tarrio.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: (DRAFT 4) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-20 Thread Jacobo Tarrio
O Mércores, 20 de Abril de 2005 ás 14:53:18 +, MJ Ray escribía: Q: Shouldn't we allow documents which describe standards or personal opinions to be non-modifiable? Why should we need the same freedoms as for programs? That's a good one (although I don't like the last question very much,

Re: (DRAFT 4) FAQ on documentation licensing

2005-04-20 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 02:53:18PM +, MJ Ray wrote: Finally, if there were any reasons to allow such a restriction in documents, these reasons would allow it in programs too. For example, qmail's license forbids distributing modified versions of it, since its author believes that his