And that's exactly why we want the licenses to say that explictly, so thatAlon -- you seem to have misunderstood me (or was it me not making myself clear?).
the one lecture written on company time and based on sources which do not
want to be widely redistributed will not lead to people suing Haifux. The
licensing should have been done in the first place before publishing the
slides. But, as there is no license, we must ask for one explictly now.
I had no criticism whatsoever on the fact that you were making a round of requests for permissions to use the slides. We have been very sloppy with this issue, maybe because none of us bothered to think in that direction.
And it is, of course, everyone's legal right to release his or her work under any possible licence. Neither do I think that Haifux should force anyone to adopt any certain license (who is "Haifux"?).
I was only surprised to realize, that people that are so aware of the mess that the licenses make in our world, make an issue of what license they are going to give to their lectures -- a license that is so easily bypassed anyhow (by an "inspired rewrite").
Eli
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