On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Aditya Godbole <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/2/11 म.हा.सा.ग.र <[email protected]>: >> ... much more than my posts perhaps... >> and he has a right to cite license to be followed for all of the text >> (s)he utters... because it is free (not as in free speech or beer but >> in some other way which follows that license) > > Anyone has the right to attempt to put any license on his/her work. > But there are still some fundamental laws the govern copyright. One > cannot, for example prevent fair use. One cannot impose a license on > something that you put on public property. One cannot restrict use of > something that one knows is going to be archived, reproduced, quoted, > partly quoted in replies which are also going to be public. > > Posting on a public mailing list is different from posting on a blog > or a website. A blog can have an identity associated with it and can > carry copyright notices, because the holder of the blog has a > responsibility of the content on it. Where there is a dispute on the > ownership of the content, like in the case of mailing list archives, > it becomes the responsibility of the owner of the site. In this case, > that is the owner of the PLUG site. Hence to avoid disputes, its up to > the owner of the site to impose some sort of license. If someone on > the list fails to comply with a CC license in a reply (which is > displayed in the archives), who then is responsible for copyright > infringement? > Hence the suggestion of discarding all legal ownership of the work > when posting on public mailing lists. > > -aditya >
how would you address that if it was you who were on the other side of this argument? that would be helpful in bug fixing.. ! -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [email protected] for mailing instructions.
