From: "Peter Kappesser" <Peter_Kappesser@promail.com>
> On 5/5/01, Stan Schwarz wrote:
> >I have a question about replacing a FAQ maintainer. One of the groups
> >I'm involved in has a case where the FAQ maintainer left in a huff nearly
> >two years ago. The FAQ used to be posted monthly, but she posted it just
> >once, just over a year ago. She refuses to post the FAQ, and also
> >refuses to give it up to someone else to care for it. What can we do
> >about this, save junking it and writing a whole new one?
>
> Not much, if she wrote the FAQ originally: she owns the copyright on
> it and thus the right to determine how it can be distributed, unless
> it has been posted with language clearly stating it's in the public
> domain.
She has explicitly copyrighted it. (I'm a FAQ maintainer on the same
group as Stan and the MIA maintainer). We're well aware of this, and
do not plan to modify the existing document without her permission.
She has explicitly given permission to post it as written, but we want
a living document that we can modify, update, MAINTAIN.
>
> If someone else originally wrote the FAQ and she took it over at some
> point, updating and maintaining it, the original author can give
> someone else permission to produce derivative works
She did take it over from the original author, but at that time it was a
piddly little thing. She added enormous amounts of information. She
simply refuses to post said information, and is no longer an active
part of the group (hasn't been for years). It was originally agreed that
the various FAQs would be posted monthly. Like Stan said, it has
been posted only once in the past 2 years. We have been working
under the assumption that after 1 year, a FAQ maintainer could be
declared a "dead" maintainer, and she just missed the deadline last
week.
>
> Unless this is the case, the best course of action would be to write
> a new FAQ.
And this has already begun, several months ago. My question is how
do we go about getting our new FAQ to be the "official" one that can
get posted to *.answers and archived, etc, without defining a new archive
name and having them exist side-by-side in the archives, which could get
confusing.
regards,
Heidi
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