Here is an interesting request that we have received regarding the content of our mailing list. What is the license for the content that we are generating through mails? Interesting legal question here. I have forwarded the mail as is below this post. Discuss and decide. Please reply all so that the authors get the replies as well.
Cheers Anoop |-- | Zyxware Technologies | http://www.zyxware.com |-- | Be the change you wish to see in the world, M. K. Gandhi |-- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sandip Patel Date: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:12 PM Subject: Request to give us the permission for archiving mails of Free Software Users Group Dear FSUG-TVM maintainers, My name is Sandip Patel and I am one of the FOSS enthusiastic in India. My teammates Hardik, Gaurav, Venish, Terence and I are maintaining a FOSS community Website aimed at increasing the awareness of Free and Open Source Software. Our Website, "The GNULinux Community Portal - www.gnulinux.in" contains information about number of free and open source software products, in addition to addressing specific concerns such as software products technicals, user problems and solutions. We also provide platform to share FOSS related job ads, share your art images under CC license, useful links and download files. We are also planing to include feature like FOSS business where FOSS entrepreneurs can share their experience with community users. As part of this initiative we are inviting FOSS experts to share their stories. We hope that sharing these stories of courage and determination within our Website will help us convey the importance of FOSS to our visitors, while providing valuable insight that they might not otherwise obtain. We have been reading your mailing list posts since long, we appreciate the quality of conversations you and mailing list members are maintaining. To make this knowledge available for our site members and visitors, with your permission, we would like to archive your mailing list mails within our Website. It will be available as forum posts in "GLUG (GNU/Linux User Groups) --> ilug-tvm(Free Software Users Group - Thiruvananthapuram)" named forum under the name of original author. Our aim is to aggregate qualitative data from quality mailing lists/lugs and make it available to open ended FOSS community users. If you have any questions regarding our initiative, preferred confidentiality, copyright, or anything else, please feel free to contact us. We hope to hear from you! Sincerely, The GNULinux Community Team Sandip Patel www.gnulinux.in -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
