this whole discussion reminds me a lot of the discussion we had about
making a CD-ROM off the contents of the Aminet FTP sites.
Conclusion reached then was, every author receives a free copy,
the single works of course are still original copyright, and
Walnut Creek donates a sum big enough to buy the main site
a new (urgently needed) disk.
(Walnut Creek did one more thing in the meantime, they run an anon
ftp site which also is in Aminet now; I very much doubt that a FAQ
collection on paper would ever make enough money to pay for an IP site.)
I think converting a FAQ to HTML would in itself be enough payment, _if_
the FAQ was "returned" to the net, maybe with a copyright reserving the right
to for-profit printed versions of the HTML version (ie, saying: you may not
take this HTML version and include it as is in a book; do your own conversion).
Seeing that rtfm.mit.edu is the "home site" for FAQs, I think exchanging a
disk image for a hardware upgrade would be ok. Furthermore I think it would
be A Good Idea (tm) to have a FAQ CD-ROM.
Could the news.answers moderation team take a poll on this issue,
and say "boo" to a CD-ROM producing firm if there's general agreement ?
regards,
spz
-- spz@serpens.rhein.de (S.P.Zeidler)
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