Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:59:13 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: core@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: [dtobler@vservers.com: Copyright Policy for FreeBSD Handbook] Message-ID: <20000915125912.A60803@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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-core, -doc, This is probably a more appropriate question for the Foundation, but I don't believe that's up and running fully yet (?) I just received the following message. I'm planning on replying as follows, but I thought I'd let anyone with more legal resources than me have an opportunity to comment. Comments? N > From: David Tobler <dtobler@vservers.com> > To: "'nik@freebsd.org'" <nik@freebsd.org> > Subject: Copyright Policy for FreeBSD Handbook > Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:20:33 -0700 > > Dear Nik, > > I am the technical writer for VServers, a HostPro company > (www.vservers.com). I would like to ask for some clarification on your > copyright policy with respect to the FreeBSD Handbook. No problem. > We are about to launch a product based on FreeBSD Release 4.1. Specifically, > my company would like to incorporate portions of the FreeBSD Handbook into > our own product documentation, with slight modifications to fit our specific > product offerings. Just for my own curiosity, what's the product? I see from http://www.vservers.com/products/ that you seem to specialise in 'virtual' products and services. Is this going to be a physical box running BSD? > According to the terms set forth in the front matter of the FreeBSD > Handbook, I understand that I am free to redistribute the documentation so > long as the copyright notice and disclaimer are included. That's correct. > Since I wish to use only selected portions of the documentation, and make > slight modifications to them, do I need to include the disclaimer? Also, is > it acceptable to modify the copyright notice as follows, since the majority > of the material will be written by our own documentation team? > > Portions of this document Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, > 2000 by The FreeBSD Documentation Project I think the best thing to do is to include the above line where you include the normal copyrights, and have an appendix (or other auxillary section) that contains something like: This document contains portions of the FreeBSD Handbook, a freely available document developed by members of the FreeBSD Documentation Project. The FreeBSD Handbook is available online http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/ and in print, ISBN 1571762418. and then include the copyright notice and disclaimer. We're always interested in feedback from people that use the Handbook, and if there are any changes you think should be made we'd be happy to hear them. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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