Maintaining a FAQ does not exclude someone else from writing another,
similar FAQ. So I don't have too much problem with the distribution
terms of the Linux FAQ, those of the Linux Documentation Project,
which are used in all of the free documentation that is distributed
through their Web site. In any event, I always get permission first
to use someone else's answers, and I think it's understood, at least
in our community, that the information is freely re-distributable.
The LDP wrestles with these sorts of negotiations all the time,
and, in the Linux world, most people seem to agree that the
documentation, like the software, should be free (as in free beer).
I frequently receive requests to re-distribute the FAQ, and I, and
I think all of the contributors, don't have too much problem with
those requests.
For example, CNET uses the answers in the FAQ, with only the attribution
that the material comes from the Linux FAQ.
Wrt/previous maintainers, the FAQ went unmaintained for 1.5 years, and
in the two years since then, I have re-written all of it and updated
most of it. I consider it substantially my work, but the
community of users puts their faith in the information that's
in the FAQ as an authoritative source of collective knowledge,
which doesn't belong to anyone, really.
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> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:43:59 -0400
> From: Edward Reid <edward@paleo.org>
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> At 12:16 PM -0700 09/05/00, Richard M. Alderson III wrote:
> >Well, yes and no, in my view. The author(s) of a FAQ have collected
> >the know-
> >ledge of the readership of the newsgroup into a (logically) single
> >document in
>
> Well, yes and no ... some are done this way, some are not. I wrote
> about 90% of mine.
>
> I agree with the other points regarding compilation copyrights,
> copyright to portions, etc. The one time someone wanted to republish
> part of mine (parts are on http://pharminfo.com), I consulted and got
> permission from the other contributors involved.
>
> Edward Reid
>
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