[Kernelbook-feedback] The giant stirrs ... kernelbook status for May 2001

[Gary L. M. <ga...@ca...>]

Greetings patient kernelbook fans,

Yes, it has been a long, long time since my last update, and a lot has
happened in that space.  Among the developments, I am now the father
of one more (5 total), and I have moved quite far from direct work on
Linux.  The short story is that I have become far too busy to devote
any concerted effort to the book or wiki project; my apologies for
leaving you all in suspense all these months.

The biggest news to announce is that I have received a release from
Macmillan formalizing their departure from the project and releasing
the copyright of the work to me.  This means I am free to do as I wish
with the work, and my immediate wish is to convert the kernelbook to a
pure free license.

As of May 12, 2001, the Kernelbook will be governed by the pure,
no-options Open Publishing License and the copyright will fall to
Teledynamics Communications Inc (my company).  This is an interim
assignment until I have the documents transfered to a more common open
license (such as the GNU Free Document License) and have the copyright
transfered to some neutral agency, perhaps the FSF, or the LDP
(probably the latter).  

An important note to my contributing authors: 

   The material you have already contributed to the kernelbook source
   rightfully belongs to you and will be removed at your request.  I
   also return the copyright to you, but ask that you formally grant
   this copyright to Teledynamics Communications Inc so that we can
   then grant the whole work over to the neutral agency.  Any material
   which has not been transfered will be removed at that time.

Some of you may have noticed new software being used for the KernelWiki
and, unfortunately, some of you have reported that this software does
not work with your browsers.  I hope to correct this situation as soon
as possible; before the millenium crash of the KernelWiki, it was
a very active and vital resource and is desperately in the kernel
community.

-- 
Gary Lawrence Murphy <ga...@ca...>  TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
"Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)