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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: adahome consultant index
Date: 1999/09/29
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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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