On Saturday 10 Jan 2009, shirish wrote: > [snip] > Shirish Agarwal > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
I suggest that NC (non-commercial) is a bad license for a mailing list, since it adds all sorts of unnecessary restrictions to what can be done with the list archives. E.g., going by the spirit of the licence, I'm prevented from selling the list archives on CD. I further suggest that individual licences on individual mails to a list is, at best, impractical and at worst unfriendly. I haven't yet seen a resolution to the question of what licence mails to a mailing list are subject to yet (remember having this discussion as far back as 1996 or so), but IMO each individual contributor mailing under a licence of his/her choice is unacceptable. What if one person selects the GFDL for her mails, another CC-BY, another CC-SA, another CC-NC, and a few more select a few more licences? It will be impossible to do anything with the list archives... heck, even backing up your private copy of the archives may become illegal. There should be a blanket licence for all postings to the list, and if an individual contributor doesn't like that s/he is welcome to not post to the list at all. List admins? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
