On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 14:26:52 -0400 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> I'm a little afraid that people with insufficient knowledge, or with > political agendas, will water it down with bullshit. Is this the problem, and only problem, you want to solve? Is this a problem that _needs_ to be solved? > Only skilled people can modify source code, but any fool can modify > documentation. I resemble that remark. :) There are essays and there is documentation out there which has been formative to me, some of which I've taken and adapted. Were I to release something, the fact that it's my name backing it will mean whatever it means to a reader. I could misrepresent my work as coming from someone else, but the fact that I'm hosting it would reveal the lie. I think it's the collection of names authenticated by where it's hosted which matters, and if "any fool" modifies it, that matters only as a curiosity if it isn't "committed upstream" so-to-speak. Also, if each release or diff were signed via PGP by contributors, that might be useful so it can be hosted anywhere. When I think about it, I suppose the protectionism would be to prevent someone else from modifying it, representing it as theirs, slapping licensing on it then sending lawyers after others. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng