From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261415AbULATJb (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:09:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261418AbULATJb (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:09:31 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:11748 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261415AbULATJI (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:09:08 -0500 Message-ID: <41AE16C5.3060209@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:08:53 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Timothy D. Witham" CC: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel ML Subject: Re: Announcing - document collection project References: <1101920490.6111.25.camel@wookie-zd7.osdl.org> <20041201170807.GE5736@redhat.com> <1101921817.6111.30.camel@wookie-zd7.osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1101921817.6111.30.camel@wookie-zd7.osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Timothy D. Witham wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:08 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > >>On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:01:30AM -0800, Timothy D. Witham wrote: >> >> > In an email conversation with Alan Cox and Andrew Morton I was >> > asked if OSDL could create a repository for old non-NDA manuals. >> > >> > I agreed that this sort of old copyrighted but never to be reprinted >> > documentation needs a home and even thought some said it was >> > a monster it looked like a nice little bunny to me so ..... >> >>Thanks, this has the makings of something really useful. >> >>One comment. Links to external documentation (like the AGP >>reference for eg) has the potential to 'disappear', making >>this resource no better than a collection of bookmarks. >> >>A true repository would have the actual documents, though >>I understand this may mean talking with the copyright holder(s). >> > > I'm OK with that - it would of course depend upon the > license from the copyright holder. But I'm open. I agree this document repository has significant potential, but I also agree with Dave: from my own direct experience, documents DO disappear. The ALSA project routinely asks vendors if the hardware manual can be mirrored on their FTP site, and I have been doing the same for network and ATA drivers: http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/ Though I cannot say that all the people who gave me permission to mirror the site are still around, to give permission to push these specs to ODSL. Jeff