Re: Help Selecting License for Bacula Documentation
> "Kern Sibbald" <kern@sibbald.com>
>
>> I suppose this is a possibility, but with the current license, this
>> shouldn't be possible, though I admit I hadn't thought about it. I
>> doubt,
>> however, if this is a real possibility, since who has the means to
>> publish
>> paper copies and give them away free?
>
> Two examples come to mind:
> 1. people using them as marketing material: magazines, journals...
I explicitly permit the above.
> 2. people with grudges, seeking to destroy competitors.
Yea, well, in this case, can you hear my little tiny violin playing in
sympathy with them :-)
>
>> In any case I wouldn't want to work with any hacker company -- rather
>> publishing a company like O'Reilly, with possibly an independent editor,
>> who knows Bacula well, as has been discussed on our list.
>
> To be clear, by hacker company, I meant companies run by hackers,
> such as www.network-theory.co.uk, rather than companies run by an
> ex-proprietary software company director that arbitrarily blacklists
> projects and sells things off to DMCA-happy companies.
If by hacker you mean in the sense of the word as I originally learned it,
OK, I have no problem. I was thinking of hacker in the somewhat
unfortunate "current" sense of a smart "bad guy".
>
> --
> MJR/slef
> Laux nur mia opinio: vidu http://people.debian.org/~mjr/
> Bv sekvu http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
>
Best regards, Kern
Reply to: