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Sven Vermeulen posted <20050610122849.GA12754@g.o>, excerpted |
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below, on Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:28:49 +0200: |
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> In the mail [Daniel Robbins] states that we can republish his articles |
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> on Gentoo as long as we put the following note in each document: |
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> """ |
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> The original version of this article was first published on IBM |
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> developerWorks, and is property of Westtech Information Services. This |
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> document is an updated version of the original article, and contains |
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> various improvements made by the Gentoo Linux documentation team. """ |
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> So for Daniel's articles, this is no issue. However, we do need explicit |
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> approval for the other articles by the authors. |
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> I propose to start GuideXML'ifying Daniel's articles. I'll leave the |
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> details on the gentoo-doc mailinglist. If anyone sees his or her name on |
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> the articles page as being one of the other authors, mind contacting me |
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> with the approval (or disapproval) of republishing the articles (with or |
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> without modifications)? |
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Having my post in the upline as being opposed to the original solution, |
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thus having some right to an opinion here... |
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I like this idea very much, and would find it highly appropriate for |
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Daniel's work, the filesystems article, for instance, both because it's |
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still very useful and informative (with updates adding the |
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writeback/ordered/data options for reiserfs, and the like, obviously), and |
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because IMO it's fitting honor for the author, who after all gave so much |
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to what Gentoo is today. The previous possibility of being seen as hiding |
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and being ashamed of his contributions (tho there were other reasons, so |
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hopefully, that's all it was, the appearance of...), removing mention of |
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them and him from the website, is gone. Instead, we're bringing it |
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in-house, where we can maintain it and ensure permanent access to it. |
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Not that he's GOD or anything. Far from it! <g> Just, there's some |
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history there that I believe retains some serious value, in addition to |
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the purely practical still very good usefulness of the work itself, of |
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course. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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