From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: adahome consultant index
Date: 1999/09/29
Date: 1999-09-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7std3u$8of$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7sr6v8$n0r$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <7sr6v8$n0r$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
David Botton <David@Botton.com> wrote:
> Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
>
> > reasonable to pronounce it "dead" and take it over yourself.
>
> Is there some sort of official process for doing this?
No. Put if you are really worried about taking over a project in the
"right" way, I suggest you read the "Ownership and Open Source" section
in ESR's Homesteading paper (
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading-4.html ).
As I read it, you've already done pretty much all you need to do, short
of the actual work, of course. :-)
> > Unfortunately, Magnus has the old FAQ copyrighted with a rather
> > restrictive license.
>
> The licensing will probably be GPL or the like. Any suggestions?
Hmmm. To prevent it from *ever* happening again, you'd want a license
that allows changes and prevents anyone from ever licensing it
differently. The GPL would do that. Unfortunately, the GPL would also
prevent quoting the FAQ in any document that isn't also GPL'ed. That's
just fine for usenet, but if anyone ever wants to use a good FAQ answer
in an Ada book, they'd have to GPL their book or get special permission
from the copyright holder. Perhaps that's good enough.
Yeah, if it were me I think I'd GPL it.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-27 0:00 adahome consultant index Joe Wisniewski
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-09-27 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-09-28 0:00 ` New AdaPower Resource Index (was Re: adahome consultant index) David Botton
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-09-28 0:00 ` adahome consultant index P.S. Norby
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-09-29 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-09-28 0:00 ` p.obry
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Joe Wisniewski
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-27 0:00 ` comp.lang.ada FAQ (was Re: adahome consultant index) Aidan Skinner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-28 0:00 ` adahome consultant index David Botton
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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