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