On Thursday 29 June 2006 21:17, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > It wasn't meant as an aphorism - it's just something I said as a general > > remark out of general frustration. But feel free to re-use it. > > That's the beauty of "public domain". You just gave Ira permission to > remove your name as the owner of the quote :-) >
Yes, I know. I don't feel like it deserves much attribution. He can easily say it as his words in place of me. Furthermore, I trust Ira enough to attribute it to me if that's what he desires. And like I said, I did not intend it as an aphorism. I am using CC-by for most of my essays (and CC-by-sa for some of my stories), but often feel that short phrases people come up with are too insubstantial to deserve to be copyrighted, at least in traditional ways. (I would prefer to be attributed for them too). One day I discovered that the "Ways to do it according to the programming languages of the world": http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html (Which I also posted to Hackers-IL at a time). Was incorporated into a Ruby wiki (sorry - can no longer found it) with some (relatively lame) modifications and no original attribution. I wasn't too angry, but added a note there saying it was derived from my original. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ 95% of the programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%.
