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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Apertium-stuff mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff > -- Aboobacker MK GSoC Student twitter.com/abvayad
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