The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News

Issue Number : 22
Publication Date : 2003-09-24

Table of Contents
1. New documents
1.1. Fresh@LDP
1.2. Submitted for review
2. Updates
2.1. HOWTOs
2.2. Guides
2.3. Miscelleaneous
3. Happenings in the LDP world
3.1. Wikis and copyrights
3.2. Tenth anniversary
4. Feedback and Contributions

1. New documents

1.1. Fresh@LDP

Nothing fresh this week.


1.2. Submitted for review

  • Kian Spongsveen wrote a HOWTO about the Sybase adaptive Server Enterprise/SQL Server. Kian is sort of complaining that his document did get reviewed by some people, but these reviewers didn't send him any comment. If you review documents from time to time, please tell the author about it. Even if it seems a good document that nears publication or that is already published. Authors like to know about the little things.
  • David Lawyer sent in the Serial HOWTO, now v2.19.

2. Updates

2.1. HOWTOs


2.2. Guides


2.3. Miscelleaneous

  • David C. Merrill sent in v2.1.1 of the Linux FAQ.
  • Our Spanish collegues have a couple of news items as well, amongs which the transcripts a speech about Open Source in the Administration, that was given at a conference. Find out more at http://es.tldp.org!
  • This week, patentable software will be discussed again in the European Parliament. The European government wanted to allow patents, but thanks to a lot of volunteers sending protests to their representatives, this has not happened yet. Still, these are scary days. This news item was brought to our attention by our Italian colleagues over at http://ildp.pluto.linux.it/.

3. Happenings in the LDP world

There are a couple of discussions still going on from last week, and some new items. Join our discussion list for more!


3.1. Wikis and copyrights

Chris Karakas, maintainer of the PHP-Nuke HOWTO, wants to put the information he manages in a Wiki clone, but he is afraid he'll have to abandon his copyright if he lets other people edit the same data. David Lawyer points out that every copyright should have an owner.

The idea came up to donate this PHP-Nuke Wiki to the Free Software Foundation and let them have the copyright, but it was decided that this would be too complicated and too much honor for a Wiki. The concensus now is that everybody contributing to the Wiki makes themselves co-owner of the copyright.


3.2. Tenth anniversary

TLDP staff has been preparing an announcement which will be sent out to a number of organizations, such as the Linux Weekly News, Slashdot and many more. You have until next Sunday to send in any comments you may have on this announcement. Here is the preview!


4. Feedback and Contributions

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