Re: linuxdoc.org: copyright and Manifesto

["{poet}" <poet@linuxports.com>]

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 <tjbynum@wallybox.cei.net>
To:             	ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org		
Subject:        	Re: linuxdoc.org: copyright and Manifesto
Forwarded by:   	ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org

> 
> > 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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