On 18 August 2014 07:46, Tino Didriksen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 August 2014 01:10, Jim O'Regan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> First of all, don't ever send a link to a copy of anything that's >> normally behind a paywall to a public list, ever. > > > Given that the link points to Mikel L. Forcada's own website and is the > first link on Google for the search phrase "Apertium: a free/open-source > platform for rule-based machine translation", then one can only reasonably > conclude the public PDF is sanctioned. >
Appearing in a Google search is no indication that a public release had been sanctioned. To be clear, this is not about punishing the person who posted the dubious link, this is about showing quickly, and publicly, that we take potential copyright issues seriously. If that strikes you as overly cautious: good. That's how it ought to be. (Similarly overly cautious, I would not have mentioned publicly who made the copy available, because of the possibility - however remote - that Springer might take exception to it. I doubt that having a soured relationship with one of the major academic publishers is in any way good for an academic.) For what it's worth, I am satisfied that this is a case of "I saw the link on Google, and thought it was ok", and not part of some nefarious scheme to infringe a publisher's copyright. I am also satisfied that Aboobacker MK has taken the steps necessary to rectify the situation, to the extent possible, and that, as a GSoC student, the relevant mentor will be able to provide adequate assurance that the project is free of copyright issues. -- <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around? <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
