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Re: linuxdoc.org: copyright and Manifesto
Personally I still think it is stupid that we allow LICENSING of
documentation. The GPL is not a documentation license. People have
stated that it will work for documentation, this may be true but it is still a
little backwards..
Poet
Date forwarded: 18 Sep 1999 12:01:03 -0000
Date sent: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 06:49:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tim <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: linuxdoc.org: copyright and Manifesto
Forwarded by: [email protected]
>
> > Just because someone takes over maintainership of a document I've worked on
> > is no reason for my name to be removed from the copyright. That would breach
> > the GPL where it specifically states that all copyright notices are to
> > be retained.
> There is no doubt....this would definately be a breach of the GPL. New
> Maintainers should at no point ever remove the original author. The only
> way I could ever see this happening is if the doc in question was ever
> given an overhaul or completely re-written. I'm still not sure it warrant
> removal of the original author, but I suppose if they had the consent of
> the the author in question, then this would be legit.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Tim
>
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