Re: Permission to use LINKAGE descriptions...

[Elizabeth Barham <lizzy@soggytrousers.net>]

Dear Professor Ott,

   The FASTLINK package that would use some of your documentation
would be part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution which is available
for free on the internet and is freely copyable but one may charge a
fee to make copies if he or she wants.

   Debian has prepared a web page that describes this further:

           http://www.debian.org/intro/free

   When a user installs the FASTLINK package, the manual pages are
installed along with the programs (i.e. binary executables) themselves
and there are no extra fees involved.

   In short, if a user has access to the internet, then there are no
fees involved. On the other hand, if a user needs to purchase Compact
Disks of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution to install on his or her
computer, for example, then there may be a fee for the disks and
service of copying the software but these are usually small.

   This web page goes into more detail and provides links to vendors:

           http://www.debian.org/distrib/

Thank you,

Elizabeth

Jurg Ott writes:

> Dear Ms. Barham,
> 
> May I first ask a question -- will people have free access to these
> documents or are there any fees involved?
> 
> Jurg Ott
> 
> 
> On 17 Apr 2003, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
> 
> > Dear Professor Ott,
> > 
> >    In an effort to distribute the FASTLINK implementation of the
> > LINKAGE suite of computer tools to the UNIX environment as part of the
> > Debian GNU/Linux distribution, some of us are writing manual pages for
> > UNIX' online documentation of the FASTLINK tools. As such, it would be
> > a great aid if we could copy some of the documentation from your site:
> > 
> >         http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/soft/linkage/
> > 
> > verbatim, such as the synopsis of the ILINK command.
> > 
> >    As an example of what we are working on, I present to you a recent
> > version of the UNKNOWN command's manual page:
> > 
> >         http://www.soggytrousers.net/repository/unknown.pdf
> > 
> >    Therefore, we are formally asking permission to copy parts of the
> > LINKAGE documentation as found on the web site, directory and relevant
> > sub-directories of:
> > 
> >         http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/soft/linkage/
> > 
> > and distribute them with the FASTLINK implementation of the LINKAGE
> > suite of tools.
> > 
> >    Thank you very much for your gracious attention to this matter.
> > 
> >    Respectfully,
> >    Elizabeth Barham
> > 
> 
> 
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