On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:37:31AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I want to cast the terms more broadly than that, since technology > changes and while it looks like the Web will be with us for a good long > time, we need to draft our license for the ages in the event that the > Mickey Mouse^W^WSonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act is not repealed > in the U.S.
Good... it was just quicker to write "URL" than to try to explain it in appropriate terms. > > And some kind of specification to prevent "oh, this is the latest version > > of the document; we cut it down from being a book to just being a reference > > card..." having distributed the book. > Or you do you mean that we want to prevent someone passing out paper copies of > the GNU Emacs Manual, but only making the source to the Quick Reference > Card available on the Web? As long as we retain GPL-style > "corresponding source code" language, that type of misbehavior will be > prohibited. Yes... so if you've printed/released version 2.7183 of a document (of which I released version 1 under this new license), and version 2.7183 is a book, you can not then rev rapidly to version 3.1416, by which point you have progressively removed content to the point where only a reference card remains, leaving only the sources for the latest version available. I should rewrite that sentence, but I won't. Cheers, Nick -- Nick Phillips -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're working under a slight handicap. You happen to be human. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
