List On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? OK... This looks like a nice argument against licensing individual mails to list.. Let us debate it a little more and we will make necessary changes in the list guidelines. > Regards, > > -- Raju > > With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog-1: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Blog-2: http://dineshah.blogspot.com/ Steve Martin - "I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks." -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
