On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.
I go with the idea of blanket licensing to cover all the posts to the mailing list. If say wikipedia allows all it's contributors to license their contributions under whatever license they would like to would it be possible to make wikipedia archive and use it? Would the content be as useful then? The same thing could be applied to software. If each individual applies their own licensing to the piece of code submitted by them, distributing that software under a open source license would be one big mess. It is important to keep a blanket license which covers the whole entity, the mailing list in this case. In case somebody wants to put their views under a separate license they can make use of the mails and use it outside the mailing list, subject to confirming to the license terms, to make their statement using their desired medium. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
