On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:19:30PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:12:21PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > If I recall, the original issue was about some RFC documents. I would > > have thought it was essential that such things, which define the > > standards we all use, should be protected from unauthorised amendments. > > In which case a license of "if you change this you may not represent it > as RFCn" would be acceptable, no? The current GNU FDL draft has a section on "Endorsements" which I think are a pretty good solution to the problem of establishing authenticity of modifiable documents. While I have serious reservations about some parts of the GNU FDL -- especially the aggressive promulgation of Invariant Sections that the FSF is practicing with some of its own manuals -- I think the license does have some good ideas in it, and the Endorsements concept is one. -- G. Branden Robinson | The key to being a Southern Debian GNU/Linux | Baptist: It ain't a sin if you branden@debian.org | don't get caught. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Anthony Davidson
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