VA Linux Knowledgebase Copyright

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To: Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com
From: Jay Seirmarco jseirmarco@vasoftware.com
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Rick:

Given that you have removed all of VA Software Corporation's trademarks from the knowledgebase, as well as any reference to VA and/or its products, the Company hereby assigns to you its rights to the resulting set of 126 articles, for the benefit of the Linux Community. This assignment is without any warranties by VA and the articles are provided to you strictly on an "AS IS" basis, with no recourse against VA for any possible damages or liability suffered by you or any third party in reliance on the content of the articles.

Best regards,

J
At 10:58 AM 3/8/2002, you wrote:
>Dear Jay:
>
>Thank you for your time yesterday during our brief discussion, and for
>the generous offer concerning the VA Linux Technical Support
>knowledgebase, a copy of which I secured while it was publicly available
>on the Web. (It is currently not available to the public, except in
>historical archives such as the one at http://web.archive.org/ .)
>
>I have gone through the 200+ Knowledgebase entries and eliminated all
>those I estimate to be of no ongoing interest to the Linux community,
>eliminated all references of any kind to VA Linux Systems, Inc. (and
>its predecessor names, VA Research and Fintronics), all references to
>VA Linux Systems, Inc. products, all references to VA Linux Systems's other
>on-line resources (such as Web pages and ftp sites), and all names
>covered by VA Software / VA Linux Systems-owned trademarks that I know of.
>The terms "VA", "VA Linux", "VA Linux Systems", "VA-enhanced", and
>"valinux.com" are globally removed from the contents.
>
>The resulting set of 126 articles is purely a set of technical
>information about the Linux operating system, containing no reference to
>your company or to its past or present products. I would like the
>opportunity to offer it again to the public, for the public benefit.
>
>Consequently, I would appreciate VA Software Corporation sending me
>an e-mail assigning to me its copyright to the 126 knowledgebase articles
>I have described. (An informal e-mail to that effect is all I need.)
>I warrant that the modified contents are as I have described, and
>do not seek any other copyright, trademark, or patent rights -- nor
>any warranty, guarantee, or other undertaking by VA Software Corporation
>as to the contents of those articles.
>
>For your convenience, I have attached the complete set of those
>articles to this e-mail, as a set of plain ASCII text files in a ZIP
>compressed archive.
>
>On behalf of the Linux community, thank you for your help, and for your
>time.
>
>Best Regards,
>Rick Moen
>2033 Sharon Road
>Menlo Park CA 94025-6246
>rick@linuxmafia.com
>650-561-9820
>

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Jay Seirmarco
General Counsel
VA Software Corp.
47071 Bayside Parkway
Fremont, CA 94538
Tel: (510) 687-7095
Fax: (510) 683-8612
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Rick: 
Given that you have removed all of VA Software Corporation's trademarks
from the knowledgebase, as well as any reference to VA and/or its
products, the Company hereby assigns to you its rights to the resulting
set of 126 articles, for the benefit of the Linux Community.  This
assignment is without any warranties by VA and the articles are provided
to you strictly on an "AS IS" basis, with no recourse against
VA for any possible damages or liability suffered by you or any third
party in reliance on the content of the articles. 
Best regards, 
J 
At 10:58 AM 3/8/2002, you wrote: 
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear Jay: 
Thank you for your time yesterday during our brief discussion, and
for 
the generous offer concerning the VA Linux Technical Support 
knowledgebase, a copy of which I secured while it was publicly
available 
on the Web.  (It is currently not available to the public, except
in 
historical archives such as the one at
<a href="http://web.archive.org/" eudora="autourl">http://web.archive.org/</a>
.) 
I have gone through the 200+ Knowledgebase entries and eliminated all 
those I estimate to be of no ongoing interest to the Linux community, 
eliminated all references of any kind to VA Linux Systems, Inc. (and 
its predecessor names, VA Research and Fintronics), all references to 
VA Linux Systems, Inc. products, all references to VA Linux Systems's other 
on-line resources (such as Web pages and ftp sites), and all names 
covered by VA Software / VA Linux Systems-owned trademarks that I know of. 
The terms "VA", "VA Linux", "VA Linux Systems", "VA-enhanced", and 
"valinux.com" are globally removed from the contents. 
The resulting set of 126 articles is purely a set of technical 
information about the Linux operating system, containing no reference to 
your company or to its past or present products.  I would like the 
opportunity to offer it again to the public, for the public benefit. 
Consequently, I would appreciate VA Software Corporation sending me 
an e-mail assigning to me its copyright to the 126 knowledgebase articles 
I have described.  (An informal e-mail to that effect is all I need.) 
I warrant that the modified contents are as I have described, and 
do not seek any other copyright, trademark, or patent rights -- nor 
any warranty, guarantee, or other undertaking by VA Software Corporation 
as to the contents of those articles. 
For your convenience, I have attached the complete set of those 
articles to this e-mail, as a set of plain ASCII text files in a ZIP 
compressed archive. 
On behalf of the Linux community, thank you for your help, and for your 
time. 
Best Regards, 
Rick Moen 
2033 Sharon Road 
Menlo Park CA 94025-6246 
rick@linuxmafia.com 
650-561-9820 
</blockquote>
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Jay Seirmarco 
General Counsel 
VA Software Corp. 
47071 Bayside Parkway 
Fremont, CA 94538 
Tel: (510) 687-7095 
Fax: (510) 683-8612 
******************************************************************* 
This email may contain confidential and privileged material 
for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review or 
distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not 
the intended recipient please contact the sender and 
delete all copies. 
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