Sorry for the whole chaos caused by me . what I did was simply copy pasting
the document name in the google and shared first link here . I was in the
assumption that publicly available documents are free to share . It seems
that my stupid assumption was wrong . So I send request to list admin and
mail-archive for removal of my mail to this list.  Please accept my deepest
apologies for my mistake in regard to this issue :-)


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Jim O'Regan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
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