Doug Meerschaert wrote:
>
> >From: "Faustus von Goethe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >I categorically (and vociferously) REJECT your notion that I am not
> >personally entitled to ownership of my own work, just because the subject
> >of
> >my reporting is YOUR foundation.
>
> Why? What do you, or the OGL community, gain by having a closed,
> non-distributable FAQ?
Internal consistency. I don't agree with Fausts tone or jumping the gun,
but I do agree that "One FAQ to rule them all, one FAQ to bind them" is
probably best. I would not want the easily confused to find a FAQ 95%
identical to Fausts, but with a few key words changed. (Sure, anyone can
pirate, edit, and distribute, but with a copyrighted FAQ, there is a
means of control. Once you open the FAQ, anyone can publish 'variants'
on it of dubious authenticity.)
I would not object, nor do I think Faust would or could, to anyone
publishing their own FAQ from their own perspective. Many topics which
are hotly contested have multiple FAQs, reflecting multiple opposing
views on what the correct 'answer' is. But there is a lot of 'cred'
invested in Fausts version, and a subtly-altered copy could generate
confusion.
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