In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Stross) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:02:24PM -0400, _brian_d_foy wrote: > > > Copyright should go to YAS or Larry, whom ever will accept it. > > why should copyright go anywhere? my original point was that > > copyright should not be asserted by those don't have it, even > > accidently. > But it is, and it has been, and the more people who cooperate the > higher the likelihood that it will occur in the future. Look at > the sheer headache involved in, for example, distributing a snapshot > of CPAN on CDROM, or the hoops that had to be jumped through to > prepare a CDROM archive of TPJ. The more authors you involve, the > greater the chance of a copyright headache arising. indeed. however, if the author chooses to license their work in a particular way, then that is their perogative and others must abide by it. that's why licenses exist. if you want to undertake such projects, then dealing with copyrights come with the territory. furthermore, if you truly want to transfer rights, then you have an entirely different headache involving attorneys, paperwork, and other bookkeeping. in this case, if you want to remove the perl documentation from the standard distribution and do something else with it, then you should have a headache. :) > > Tom or Nat or anyone else should be able to publish > > and profit from their contributions if they choose to do so. books > > like the Camel or the Ram would be extremely difficult to write if > > every time an author wrote some documentation they instantly lost > > rights to their own work. > Agreed, which is why I noted that there should be a single source that > can grant permission to reproduce the FAQs, and which should not be a > profit-making entity. a single source that can grant permission can also deny it. an author should not have to ask permission to use his own work. -- brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Perl services for hire CGI Meta FAQ - http://www.perl.org/CGI_MetaFAQ.html Troubleshooting CGI scripts - http://www.perl.org/troubleshooting_CGI.html
