Hi folks,
An interesting discussion has been taking place between Rajat (Patni) and I. It is
about copyright, or more
specifically the use of copyright in my article in the "In the Trenches" section on
our web-site. What Rajat feels is
that I should not have put the copyright notice in the article, since according to him
it goes against the spirit of
GNU/Linux. I'm not in complete agreement with him.
My stand in the matter --
I don't mind ppl reading it (the _only_ reason why it is there), referencing it (God
know if there is anything to
reference frm there!!) linking to the article from their web-page/sites, even
reproducing the article. It is not a tech
article, rather it explores the human-side of technology, so no one is likely need to
modify it. But I certainly draw
the line if someone is be charging money from someone else to read the article (eg. by
reproducing it in a commercial
publication) or is to remove my name from the article. Putting the copyright protects
me from such abuse. It is only
too common on the Web to have other people taking off with your entire ideas, designs,
writeups without even as much as
by-your-leave. The copyright protects against such poaching. Although I wrote it, I
consider it to be a part of the
ILUG-Cal repository, and I would like to ensure that it stays that way.
Without breaking into another round of flame-fest, I feel that there is a lot of scope
for contructive discussion on
this point over copyright. But before you press "r" -- do keep in mind that the issue
here is not discuss who is more
right or less wrong among the two of us, rather the idea is to discuss on copyright
issues as we see them in our
community.
Looking forward to some interesting mails.
Cheers,
--Indra.
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