On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:35:22AM -0500, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
What is our official stance on stuff like this? There are some pretty useful documents out there that we could probably add to the collection under the circumstances Marcello describes.
Josh
We've carried ESR's Jargon File for a long time. Additional writings along the lines mentioned below are welcome, but (a) we still ask permission of the author; and (b) they need to be reformatted to meet our guidelines; and (c) there is no guarantee that "someone" will be able to keep our version up to date with the latest available version. I'm generally opposed to technical manuals, because they become outdated so quickly. We have one or two of these, as experiments. Maybe someone will want to start a site (PG affiliate or not) that is devoted to preservation of such materials, sort of like the Internet Archive's effort to preserve abandoned software. Definitely worthwhile, but not something PG can do too well today. -- Greg (sorry for my late response...)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcello Perathoner" <marcello@perathoner.de> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Technical Collection for Consideration. Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:11:28 +0200
Jonathan Ingram wrote:
Sadly the overly long length of modern copyright terms mean that we won't see a large influx of public domain computer programming material for a while.
Many FSF books are copylefted. One I should definitely like to see in the collection is:
Free Software Free Society
selected essays of
Richard M. Stallman
My paper copy says:
"Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this book provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved on all copies."
-- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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