Re: www.adahome.com?...

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3A57C029.6BC5A685@brighton.ac.uk>,
  John English <je@brighton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Ted Dennison wrote:
> > If I remember correctly, his rationale for copyrighting the FAQ was
> > something along the lines that he wanted to prevent hostile forking
> > of the FAQ. However, he also took care to require his permission for
> > just about any commercial distribution of it. The LRM copyright
> > seems to just have been a crass commercial act (he offers to sell
> > his HTML FAQ on the site, and the licensing terms seem to be crafted
> >  to prevent you from legally acquiring a copy any other way).
>
> Hmm. Having asked Marcus for permission to redistribute the FAQs (and
> receiving this without any quibbles), and then having spoken via email
> and finally meeting him F2F at Ada Europe some years back, I'm
> inclined to be dubious about any implied mercenary motives. Marcus did

I'm sorry, I typed "FAQ" at the end, when I meant to type LRM. Replace
the last "FAQ" in the above paragraph with "LRM". The rest is what I
meant to say. Given the Magnus/Marcus thing, I'm sure you'll understand.
:-)

I don't think we are in disagreement at all.

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T.E.D.

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