Re: Boilerplate License Revision Proposal

[Dan York <dyork@linuxcare.com>]

ldp-discuss,

I've waded through the rather lengthy licensing discussion that 
occured while I was away and not really able to read email. 
I'll be interested to see the results of the comments sent in 
from where it has been published on the web page.

My only comment is this... as a newcomer to the LDP process, I
would not want to have to figure out what license I should use
when I'm also trying to learn the LDP process, learn DocBook, etc.

*If* a decision is made to support multiple licenses (such as
OPL, GFDL, etc.), I would suggest that *one* of them be the
"preferred" license, perhaps the modified Boilerplate. *That*
license could be in the template files that are provided to new
authors.

That way new authors who don't necessarily understand the nuances
of the licenses - and don't really care, they just want to help
by writing documents - those authors can just start writing.
However, if other authors want to use a different license, that
is certainly fine and up to them.

Again, this is *if* multiple licenses are supported.  I merely
raise the suggestion.

I look forward to the continued discussion and resolution.

Regards,
Dan

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