From: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
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Subject: Re: license
To: dgaudet@arctic.org (Dean Gaudet)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:01:52 -0700 (PDT)
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 from Dean Gaudet at "Aug 7, 97 03:36:33 pm"
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	So this brings up some issues. The SH docs right now include
some text from the apache docs, but most of it is a rewrite. If you
restrict the new docs for a commercial use then does commercial
documentation have to be a clean room effort?

> No better way to screw up discussions than to mention licensing.  I don't
> think the code license is appropriate for high quality documentation.  Our
> current manual, while extensive, is not "book ready".  But it's possible
> that this project would produce something which is book ready.  We do not
> want someone to be able to print it and reap profits off our work... 
> unlike software which is high overhead (nobody would buy from a
> fly-by-night, they look for support, etc.), books don't usually come with
> support contracts. 
> 
> Just food for thought.  The documentation must be free, but it could have
> commercial restrictions added to it.
> 
> Dean
> 
> 


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