On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 21:22 -0300, Leonardo Lopes Pereira wrote: > I realy dislike the Coyotos specs. license (this is a question to > another chapter), but, at least, it's source-code is free.
The current document copyright is temporary. When the Coyotos spec freezes, we will release it under a more liberal license -- probably GFDL, but no guarantees about that. The one thing we will require (which is why there is a question about GFDL) is that any modification of the document must not be described as Coyotos. The reason for this is that Coyotos is a reference specification. By their nature, reference specifications are frozen reference documents. To readers, it is important to know that they are examining the definitive reference document. So: if others want to modify the Coyotos design and derive from it, that is perfectly fine. They just should not create confusion about what it means to be Coyotos. I do understand the frustration with the current copyright. I decided that it was better to discourage mutation until the first version of the document was frozen. Jonathan _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
