[PLUG] LDP Licensing Troubles

[Tobias DiPasquale <anany@ece.villanova.edu>]

I'm sure you all read Slashdot, but just in case:

<snip>
Posted by michael on Thursday December 06, @12:31PM from the 
documentation-always-a-weak-spot dept.

Guylhem writes: "The former LDP license was the first license used for 
our documentation. While we are now recommending the GNU FDL and the OPL 
1 without options A or B, many documents are still licensed under the 
LDPL. David Merril, our Collection Coordinator, noticed that the LDPL is 
"not free" according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have to 
get in touch with the authors as soon as possible or 2/3 of the LDP 
document collection will be removed from the base Debian distribution 
because the code freeze is happening in 2 days. Maybe some of the LDP 
unreachable authors are reading slashdot and could take 1 minute to 
submit an updated document licensed under the FDL or OPL v1 -A -B ? 
Another solution is to find volunteers to rewrite from scratch the 
concerned documents."
</snip>

If anyone wrote any of this documentation, this one's for you.

--
Tobias DiPasquale
Solaris System Administrator
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Villanova University
mailto: anany@ece.vill.edu
tel: 610-519-5109


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