From susan at smacchia.net Mon Jun 5 05:34:29 2006 From: susan at smacchia.net (Susan Macchia) Date: Thu Jul 12 12:38:52 2007 Subject: [dmi-workgroup] Updated status of copyright query - GPL doc vs FSG Message-ID: <20060605123429.38584.qmail@web51813.mail.yahoo.com> Below is the latest on my inquiry. Given this I am going to go ahead and start creating the wiki pages. I assume the GPL Doc page needs to be the first or second page? Can I find this in the GDB manual? Also - I am not a wiki expert and am bound to make mistakes. So please bear with me or correct those mistakes when they are made. Thanks, Susan --- Ian Murdock wrote: > Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 06:26:38 -0400 > From: "Ian Murdock" > To: "Amanda McPherson" > Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: Re: Some FSG questions]] > CC: susan@smacchia.net, "jzemlin@freestandards.org" > , > "Wichmann, Mats D" > > Susan, > > Go ahead and move forward--don't let this stand in the way of any > momentum. In general, there's no problem with utilizing open source > content as long as you provide proper attribution. If there's an FSG > policy that says otherwise, we need to change our policy. :-) We > inherited a few things that, as Mats put it, are not well-considered. > > -ian > > On 6/1/06, Amanda McPherson wrote: > > Mats, thanks for your thoughts. > > > > Susan, this info may help. Take a look at Mats' answers. > > > > Jim, do you have any other insight into this document license? > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: RE: [Fwd: Re: Some FSG questions] > > Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:18:02 -0700 > > From: Wichmann, Mats D > > To: Amanda McPherson , Ian Murdock > > > > > > > > > > >Mats, do you have any insight into this? I thought you might know . . . > > > > > >am > > > > > >-------- Original Message -------- > > > > > >----- Original Message ---- > > >From: Ian Murdock > > >To: Susan Macchia > > >Cc: Jim Zemlin ; Amanda McPherson > > > > > >Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:05:00 PM > > >Subject: Re: Some FSG questions > > > > > >Hi Susan, > > > > > >Jim/Amanda: Any perspective here on the copyright stuff? > > > > > >The LSB contains material extracted from other places (e.g., POSIX), so > > >there shouldn't be any problem including it and adding appropriate > > >attributions. > > > > We have permission for that, but I don't think we actually take > > any text from POSIX. > > > > > > >-ian > > > > > >On 5/24/06, Susan Macchia wrote: > > >> Hi Ian, > > >> > > >> I have some questions about storing the specification and > > >copyright. If you > > >> can't answer them, do you know who could? > > >> > > >> First: > > >> Is html considered a transparent form? > > > > Yes. You can look inside it, edit it by hand, etc. > > As opposed to something like MS-Word. > > > > >> Second: > > >> We want to be able to take content from the gdb manual > > >> (covered under GNU Free Documentation License) and post > > >> sections to a wiki, so that they can be worked on by > > >> the work group members (the wiki for this still needs > > >> to be set up, pointed to by the DMI sub-website). > > > > In general, documents under the FDL are open source and > > you may do what you wish with them, but you may not > > call them the same thing - so whatever pages you use > > you may not represent as being "the" gdb manual. > > > > >> I have reviewed > > >http://www.freestandards.org/en/Document_License. And one > > >> sections says: > > >> "All contributions not copyright Free Standards Group must > > >be assigned to the > > >> Free Standards Group before they may be included in our > > >specifications or other > > >> documents to be distributed under the guidelines in this policy." > > > > I understand the intent of that policy but it doesn't > > sound like it was well considered. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > ____________________________ > > Amanda McPherson > > Marketing Director > > Free Standards Group > > 2370 Market St. #157 > > San Francisco, CA 94114 > > V: (415) 531-0483 > > F: (415) 354-1787 > > http://www.freestandards.org > > > > > > > > > -- > Ian Murdock > 317-863-2590 > http://ianmurdock.com/ > > "Don't look back--something might be gaining on you." --Satchel Paige > From susan at smacchia.net Mon Jun 5 05:38:56 2006 From: susan at smacchia.net (Susan Macchia) Date: Thu Jul 12 12:38:52 2007 Subject: [dmi-workgroup] Updated status of copyright query - GPL doc vs FSG In-Reply-To: <20060605123429.38584.qmail@web51813.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060605123856.4023.qmail@web51806.mail.yahoo.com> > > I assume the GPL Doc page needs to be the first or second page? Can I find > this in the GDB manual? Never mind on this - Daniel gave me the info last week. Just have to cull it out.. ")