Re: Missing documentation...

[Paul Koning <paulkoning%comcast.net@localhost>]

> On Aug 4, 2025, at 3:16 PM, Perry Metzger <perry%piermont.com@localhost> wrote:
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> Howdy! The Vax diskless HOWTO we have points at a link on world.std.com that has been dead for at least 15 years. However, the wayback machine seems to have the content that was there at https://web.archive.org/web/20001206172700/http://world.std.com/~bdc/projects/vaxen/VAX-netboot-HOWTO.html
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> The question is this: given that the pages in question don't have a license on them, is it permissible to copy them over to a NetBSD machine? My guess is no. There's good information there, although some of it is likely out of date, and it's a shame to have it slowly disappear off the net.
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> Perry

IANAL but the way I understand the rules is that any "work" is owned by its author(s), and you can do with it only those things the author permitted.   At least that's true for the current generation of copyright law; it used to be different before but that was long before 1998.  So the best answer is to ask the author for permission.  The next best answer is to rely on archive.org doing what it does.  And of course, if you were to copy those pages for safekeeping but not distribute them, that would avoid the risk of them disappearing while deferring the discussion of what the rules are.

paul