> "HOWTO Pay for Free Software", http://puzzling.org/pub/HOWTO/Free/
I wrote to Mary on January 4th about this, and was asking if she
would allow me to distribute it in Plucker format at Linuxworld. I asked her
what license she was going to distribute it under and what terms she would
allow redistribution, if any. Here is her response:
> I'm going to licence it under one of the free licences (Open Publication
> or GNU Free Documentation, I'll have to read them first). When I do that,
> I'll let you know and you can distribute it. I really need to finish it up
> and do a final re-read and polish before I do that though.
> I expect I'll complete it over the next week, and I'll let you know when I
> do.
> I don't want the version currently on the webpage distributed, as it's in
> need of a tidy-up but it shouldn't take long to do.
She may very well have cleaned it up by this point, not sure. I'll
contact her and see if she has, and if so, I'll put it on the Samples page
for download.
> Please don't forget that when you make requests, what you're asking is,
> "Please give up your evenings and weekends for the next N weeks so that I
> can have my feature."
This is a very important point. Some of us don't have much time left
for doing things that we _want_ to do, and many of us aren't employed. We
spend our days trying to make ends meet doing whatever we can to survive,
and what's left of our nights writing and improving Free Software because it
is something we all like to do.
d.
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