Linux FAQ - Section 13
Administrative information and acknowledgements

• Q13.1. Feedback is invited
• Q13.2. Formats in which this FAQ is available
• Q13.3. Authorship and acknowledgements
• Q13.4. Disclaimer and Copyright

I accept submissions for the FAQ in any format; All contributions comments and corrections are gratefully received.

Please send them to ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu.

If you wish to refer to a question(s) in the FAQ it's most useful for me if you do so by the question heading, rather than the number, as the question numbers are generated automatically and I don't see them in the source file I edit.

I prefer comments in English to patchfiles - I write the FAQ in a different internal format anyway, so I can't use a patchfile.

Question 13.2. Formats in which this FAQ is available

The ASCII, Emacs Info, HTML and posted versions and a Lout typesetter file (from which the PostScript is produced) are generated automatically by a Perl script which takes as input a file in the Bizarre Format with No Name.

The output files linux-faq.ascii, .info and .ps and a tarfile linux-faq.source.tar.gz, containing the BFNN source and Perl script converter, are available in the docs directories of the major Linux FTP sites.

The HTML version of this FAQ is available as index.html and is mirrored at www.li.org and other sites.

The USENET version is posted regularly to comp.os.linux.announce, comp.os.linux.answers, comp.answers and news.answers.

Question 13.3. Authorship and acknowledgements

Special thanks are due to Matt Welsh, who moderated comp.os.linux.announce and comp.os.linux.answers, used to coordinate the HOWTOs and has written substantial portions of many of them, to Greg Hankins, who currently coordinates the HOWTOS, to Lars Wirzenius, who currently moderates comp.os.linux.announce, and to Marc-Michel Corsini, who wrote the original Linux FAQ.

Thanks also to the many people who have sent comments and suggestions; they are too numerous to list here, but their input has been invaluable.

Last but not least, thanks to Linus Torvalds and the other contributors to Linux for giving us something to write about !

Question 13.4. Disclaimer and Copyright

Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers is Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 by Ian Jackson ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu.

It may be reproduced and distributed in its entirety (including this authorship, copyright and permission notice) provided that either:

• the distribution is not commercial (commercial means any situation in which you benefit financially - directly or indirectly such as by inclusion in a publication which carries commercial advertising), or
• the distribution is in machine-readable form (ie, a form intended to be easily processed by a computer).

Any distribution of a partial copy or extract, a translation or a derivative work must be approved by me before distribution. Email me - I'll probably be happy to oblige !

Exceptions to these rules may be granted, and I shall be happy to answer any questions about this copyright --- write to Ian Jackson, Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS, United Kingdom or email ijackson@gnu.ai.mit.edu. These restrictions are here to protect the contributors, not to restrict you as educators and learners.

Ian Jackson asserts the right to be identified as the author of this work, and claims the moral rights of paternity and integrity, in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.