hi ceki (this states my philosophical position in principle. i might put some other thoughts which are more a response into another document later. now i've read more of the thread, these points have already been raised - but i think that i'd like to post them anyway. hope that ok.)
i don't see any difference - in principle - between a manual and a book. i don't see any difference between publishing a book electronically and publishing a treeware version. publishing books on open source products has a long and illustrious history both here at the jakarta project and at the apache project. so i'd say that publishing a book on log4j would be noble undertaking. for me, the more important question - as far as honour is concerned - is how you act after your book is published (in whatever form). one test would be - how you would act if somebody volunteered to improve the basic (ASF licensed) project documentation? i think that it would be dishonourable to refuse these improvements. another test would be - how would you act if another committer authored a competing book on log4j? i think that it would be dishonourable not to give it equal status. i personally think that you'd pass both these tests. - robert On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 07:06 PM, Ceki G�lc� wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I am pondering whether it is possible to earn revenue by offering > log4j documentation online, a bit like what JBoss is trying to > do. Needless to say, the log4j API (the software) will always be > licensed under the Apache Software license and would include some > basic documentation. However, writing good documentation is very time > consuming and I'd like to see if I can get paid to do it. > > This documentation will be based on the long log4j manual which was > until recently part of log4j 1.2 alpha3, alpha4 and alpha5. However, > the latest alpha6 does not include it. This document carried a clearly > visible copyright notice. It was always copyrighted by me and not the > ASF. > > Do you think this is an honorable approach? Your comments on the > subject are welcome. Thank you. > > > -- > Ceki G�lc� - http://qos.ch > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:log4j-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:log4j-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
