Re: New HOWTO

["David Merrill" <dcmerrill@mindspring.com>]

From: "David Merrill" <dcmerrill@mindspring.com>
> From: <Richard.Sigle@equifax.com>
> > I am interested in creating documentation that covers configuring
> Apache,
> > ModSSL, and Openssl with its main focus on installing certificates.
>
> Please look at the Apache+SSL+PHP+fp HOWTO. It is at
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Apache+SSL+PHP+fp.html It seems to
> cover the same ground. However, it also was last updated in July of
1998!
> :(
>
> I just wrote to the author (Marcus Faure) to see if he plans on updating
> it and maintaining it.

I got the following (really quick!) response from Mr. Faure:

> I have compiled a lot of apaches since 1998, my current flagship is a
> 1.3.14 with PERL, PHP4, Jserv, Frontpage and Chilisoft ASP. I only did
> not find time to write about it, but am looking forward to the beginning
> of the next year which will give me some spare time.

Richard, I am forwarding your email address to Marcus, and I recommend
that you offer to work with him rather than generate another HOWTO on the
same topic. Since he appears to be too busy at the moment to work on it,
perhaps he would be amenable to your contributions. Or not, but who knows
until you ask, right?

> It is released under *no* license. Yep, no license or copyright
mentioned
> at all. What kind of legal standing does that give it? Is it in the
public
> domain? Or, as I seem to recall, is it automatically copyrighted under
US
> law even without a copyright statement, and therefore dead if we can't
> contact him?

Since I *was* able to contact him, the point is moot. The licensing issue
is still valid, however, and I'm asking Marcus to address this by applying
the free license of his choice.

Regards,

--
David C. Merrill, Ph.D.
Linux Documentation Project
Collection Editor & Coordinator
www.LinuxDoc.org



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