RE: [Garnet-devel] some of the docs are now online

I am delighted to have the manual widely distributed. The reason for keeping the copyright
is to make sure that CMU continues to get credit. I am authorized to give permission on
behalf of CMU and I do so for the version now in the cvs tree, which is appropriately
marked with the copyrights.

Brad Myers 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C Y [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:33 AM
> To: Brad Myers; [email protected]
> Cc: 'Garnet Developers' list'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Garnet-devel] some of the docs are now online
> 
> --- Brad Myers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > The Garnet source code was put into the public domain, and 
> is freely 
> > distributable.
> > 
> > The Garnet manual remains Copyright Carnegie Mellon, so we 
> still have 
> > some (legal) say in its use.
> 
> Yipe!  That's good to know.  Should I take it out of the cvs tree? 
> Without an explicit license (e.g. only copyright CMU) we 
> aren't even technically allowed to distribute it, much less update it.
> 
> > I (on behalf of CMU and the authors) hereby give official 
> permission 
> > for the new sourceforge version, although I think it is 
> pretty hard to 
> > use. It really needs "Next" buttons on every page, in 
> addition to the 
> > Previous and Contents buttons.
> 
> Maybe there is an option for that in LaTeX2HTML?
> 
> > If someone wants to make this into a book, I am sure that 
> will be fine 
> > too, but you should ask us first.
> 
> OK.  I was under the impression the manual was under the same 
> terms as the source code - sorry about that!  And I try not 
> to make legal assumptions... arrgh.
> 
> This is speculative Brad, so it might be rather premature to 
> ask, but how would CMU feel about combining (at least some 
> part of) the Garnet manual with the source code itself into a 
> literate programming style project?  That's a can of worms 
> from a legal standpoint since the resulting document contains 
> both source code and documentation, and I'm glad I didn't 
> step in the cow pie (thanks Robert!).  The reason I like this 
> approach is mostly due to the Axiom project, which is 
> striving to take Knuth's idea of programs as documents and 
> use it to create mathematical code that will be fully 
> understandable into the remote future.  While I can't claim 
> to have done much of merit yet in this department, I'm very 
> much interested and was hoping Garnet, CLX, cl-typesetting, 
> and other key pieces of technology might also be converted 
> into literate programming documents and used to build a high 
> quality GUI enviornment for Axiom.  Of course literate 
> programming wouldn't be really necessary for such a thing, 
> but it would be nice :-).
> 
> Anyway, my apologies again for making assumptions I shouldn't have. 
> One other question - would it be acceptable to convert the 
> postscript files into pdf and post those on the sourceforge 
> page?  (once I get to a computer that can actually DO that, 
> of course...)  They are easier for some folks to read and can 
> be searched with a Find command, something I have found quite 
> helpful on my own machine.
> 
> Cheers, and thanks,
> CY
> 
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