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On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:12:53 -0400 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| While a flamewar will probably ensue; this is not the intent of this |
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| mail or of the bug filing. Please keep your unproductive comments |
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| off-list and off the bug. I will lock the bug if it becomes |
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| necessary. This mail and the bug exist to allow transparency for this |
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| situation; I don't want an open field where everyone throws their two |
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| cents in just because they can. Only comment if you have something |
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| relevant to say. |
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Ok, for the sake of transparency... Here's the request I sent. I only |
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did so after having being ignored repeatedly and deliberately by |
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plasmaroo, who refuses to even acknowledge that I've asked him to fix |
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things. |
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You'll note that nowhere did I demand that Kurt immediately pull |
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everything and start making a fuss in public. A simple "yes, there's |
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a problem, and we'll get it fixed within the next few days" would |
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have been fine. I deliberately kept this private because fixing a few |
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very simple things should not involve huge arguments in public. Ideally |
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it'd just involve a quick /query on IRC... |
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As for why attribution matters... Aside from the legal issue, the |
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*only* thing any of the devmanual authors get for having written it is |
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to get their name on it. There's no pay, no rewards. Replacing the |
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cover page author list with the name of one guy who didn't contribute |
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anything in a huge font is just about the most impressive "screw you" |
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one could possibly give to a volunteer. |
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Meh, but since this has been brought out in public, here's the full |
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text. Hopefully it'll help dispel some of the fud a few people are |
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spreading: |
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Following up upon my previous post [3] and requests over IRC, which have |
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not yet been resolved: |
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The "Gentoo Development Guide" (devmanual), which is being hosted on a |
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gentoo.org domain at [1], is being distributed in violation of its |
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licence. The devmanual is distributed under the terms of the Creative |
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Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence [2], which has the following |
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to say in 4c: |
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"at a minimum such credit will appear where any other comparable |
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authorship credit appears and in a manner at least as prominent as such |
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other comparable authorship credit." |
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Note in particular "at least as prominent as". |
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The current cover page does not follow this requirement. It lists Tim |
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Yamin as 'Editor', with myself in smaller type below, and does not |
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include any of the other original authors (and copyright holders) with |
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the same prominence. |
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Please either restore the author credits to their original form or cease |
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from distributing the devmanual. It is my understanding that between the |
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listed Editor, QA, devrel, the Council, the Foundation and the people |
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maintaining the gentoo.org website, at least one available person should |
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be able to make this change -- if not, please let me know whom I should |
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contact. I realise that it may take a few days to make the change; in |
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any case, please notify me of your intentions as soon as reasonably |
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possible. |
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Many thanks, |
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[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ |
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[2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ |
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[3] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&m=114850574909268&w=2 |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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