> Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 22:09:34 -0700
> From: Stan Schwarz <stan@cosmo.pasadena.ca.us>
> > robin <robin_v@bigpond.com> writes:
> >
> > >> I have a question about replacing a FAQ maintainer. One of the groups
> >
> > Who wrote the FAQ? If it was written collectively by the members of the
> > group, that's one thing, but if the previous maintainer wrote most of it
> > herself, it's really her intellectual property, and posting it without her
> > consent isn't exactly kosher. (At least to me.)
Unless there was a copyright notice attached to it, posting it
makes it public property.
> Well, in this case, she started with an existing FAQ, and rewrote it from
> the ground up. So if we can't use her FAQ, and we write a new one, how
> do we declare ours to be the 'official' FAQ and have hers declared dead?
>
> There is a group that is actively writing a new FAQ, so if we can have
> that one declared to be the official FAQ, that would be all right.
>
> --
> Stan Schwarz | Extreme sports...offer "some kind of physical
> stan@cosmo.pasadena.ca.us | analog to the thrill of installing Linux or
> http://cosmo.pasadena.ca.us | other open-source operating systems."
> | -Mikki Halpin, _The Geek Handbook_
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