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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:09:05 -0400
"Smith, Jeffery S \(Scott\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| As the author and copyright holder of the how-tos, it is up to Darrell to
| determine if they can be published. However, copyright protects only the
| specific expression of "something", not the idea or concept of the
| "something" itself. In other words, there is nothing to prevent anyone from
| writing new how-tos that express the same something, just so long as that
| expression is substantively different than Darrell's so as not to be
| construed as a copy.
|
| Case in point -- much of the how-to on how to batch add user accounts was
| taken from postings made to this forum by me, and conceptually the
| knowledge
| of how to batch delete or otherwise deal with user accounts in a batch mode
| was a derivative work. Darrell's contribution was in gathering the
| information provided my me and a few others, testing and refining the
| knowledge we shared with everyone into a workable form, and recording it in
| a howto document. Without providing credit, I might add ;-) And I've noted
| that many of the howtos are of this nature -- an accumulation of the
| knowledge derived from the postings here, formalized by someone, hopefully
| with the courtesy of acknowledging the input of others.
|
| For those of you who want to contribute, you are free to rewrite those
| howtos provided you do so in a way that does not infringe Darrell's
| copyright.
|
| Scott
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