On Oct 02, 2001 at 03:36 -0600, Chris Fedde took the soap box and proclaimed: : On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 17:02:24 -0400 _brian_d_foy wrote: : +------------------ : | In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey West) 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. 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. : | : | giving away rights isn't the solution, it's the problem. : | : | the only issue is the form of the notice of copyright. :) : +------------------ : : The FAQ needs some copyright statement. : : Copyright (c) 1985-1997 Tom Christiansen. : Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington. : Copyright (c) 2001 Perl Documentation Project and its contributors. : : But s/Perl Documentation Project/Yet Another Society/ might be reasonable. : Maybe we need some legal advice about this. Is this something we could ask : the O'Reilly editors about?
The problem here is that the PDP isn't a true entity, it's an idea inside my head that has been let out to the masses. If you're willing to pass all FAQ copyright on to me (or, my head), fine. I'll even go to the trouble of including it in my will. Should I die or become incapacitated, or unable to think with clue, procedure X will happen and copyright will be transfered to some other Thing. While I'm comfortable with that approach, I'm sure most of you are not. In this light, YAS is a real entity, it is not Kevin Lenzo with a new name and financial status. YAS can add copyright rights and how they should handle them into a charter that must be upheld, my head can't. Perhaps my favorite plan is to discontinue the FAQ copyright all together. They are no different than any other standard document in terms of content. Stop updating them. In the wake of all this bicker I'd like to ask a question that, in my opinion, is much more important: where are all the patches? (Please note that I am aware and greatful for the folks who have been changing things.) I don't think I've seen a situation, till now, where copyright was more important than just changing things that need changing. This thread should continue, but so should the patching. :-) Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with English You put your foot in your mouth, then bite it off. (For those who don't know, English is a McDonnell Douglas/PICK query language which allegedly requires 110% of system resources to run happily.)
