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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:05:34 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Cc:        Neo Sadist <neosadist@hotmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Copyright issues pertaining to www.slackersbible.org and MadPengiun
Message-ID:  <20050207090534.73a9421d@mobile.pittgoth.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050207095647.GN73948@submonkey.net>
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:56:48 +0000
Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:41:37AM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
> > On Monday 07 February 2005 01:26, Neo Sadist wrote:
> > > To Whom It May Concern:
> > >
> > >      Has permission been given to use content from the FreeBSD handbook on
> > > www.slackersbible.org ?  I am only checking to make sure before I use
> > > content from your handbook on this page.
> > >      Also, please read the "about" page for slackersbible.org.  They intend
> > > to make a handbook very similar to the FreeBSD handbook.  Please review
> > > their site and intents, and let me know if they have permission.
> > >      By the way, thank you for your handbook.  It is by far the best free
> > > UNIX/*nix handbook I have ever read.
> > 
> > Short answer:
> > http://www.slackersbible.org/node/35
> > 
> > Longer answer, check the thread that preceded the creation of the slackware 
> > handbook.  It took place on this very mailinglist a 2 weeks ago: 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2005-January/006960.html
> 
> Shorter answer:
>  Yes.

Tedious explination:

So long as the FreeBSD Project was acknowledged and the author
names left in the documentation.  We had hoped for mutual benefit
from the project and wanted to ensure that typos and grammatical
fixes would make their way back here.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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