Karsten M. Self wrote: > Section C.4 of the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide is based on notes > I wrote for performing a chroot installation of Debian under an existing > GNU/Linux system. > > The current version of the manual has modified this work, but is still > clearly based on the documents I wrote originally in 1999, and further > ammended in 2002 and continue to maintain, with most recent > modifications in May, 2004: > > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/install-under-chroot.html > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/DebianChrootInstall.html > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall > > The terms for distribution of my work is clearly stated: > > © 2002-2004 Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) This document may > be freely distributed, copied, or modified, with attribution, this > notice, and the following disclaimer: > > THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. > > IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR > ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR > CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. I don't feel it would be healthy for the readability (or usability) of the manual if the copyright notice included a list of every minor contributor or web page read by a contributor, or if it had a copyright statement more complex than the current one: Copyright © 2004, 2005 the Debian Installer team This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Please refer to the license in Appendix E, GNU General Public License. FWIW, I think you're blowing this all out of porportion, but if you would like to produce a list of specific phrases in the manual that you feel are derived from those on your web page, I'd be happy to rewrite them. Aside from that, we can add a link to one of your pages in our existing list of influential howtos and faqs, something like: Extremely helpful text and information was found in Jim Mintha's HOWTO for network booting (no URL available), the <ulink + url="&url-debianchrootinstall;">DebianChrootInstall document</a>, the <ulink url="&url-debian-faq;">Debian FAQ</ulink>, the <ulink url="&url-m68k-faq;">Linux/m68k FAQ</ulink>, the <ulink url="&url-sparc-linux-faq;">Linux for SPARC Processors FAQ</ulink>, the <ulink url="&url-alpha-faq;">Linux/Alpha FAQ</ulink>, amongst others. The maintainers of these freely available and rich sources of information must be recognized. > The Debian Project has been distributing this work in violation of my > copyrights. I've previously requested this be remedied in 2003, the > situation remains uncorrected: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/05/msg00489.html > > The use of my works has been confirmed by one of the > debian-installer-manual developers: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/05/msg00491.html I'm sorry that this has gone uncorrected for so long. -- see shy jo
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