Archives are public, so, IMHO, the list is. Vito
2017-11-24 11:11 GMT+01:00 mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org>: > Saluton ĉiuj, > > Le 23/11/2017 à 20:54, Emeric Vallespi a écrit : > >> I think it was important to re-explain all those points so that the >> community, which is - again - unnecessarily taken as witness, is not >> deceived by a scenario built from scratch. >> Again, to discredit the movement by such erroneous but public accusations >> still shows that only personal interests and vainness matter in this >> conflict with some people. >> >> I seize the opportunity to ask: what is the legal status of the list? Is > it considered public? > > I mean, it's easy to subscribe for anyone, but you still have to > subscribe. And as far as I know, accessing archives require to login. Now > there are other website which make crawled archives publicly accessible, > but just because some do that doesn't mean it's legal. > > Also I'm not aware of any license regarding posted emails, so plain > copyright probably apply, minus any exception related to epistolary > material that might exist. > > It might be interesting to make any post to our mailing list a free > licensed material. I've been thinking about that as I had the idea to > extensively analyse the wikidata-l mailling list and publish a side by side > statements and extracted keywords elements, but from a legal point of view > it is probably not feasible. That might be circumvented with links, or > providing a software which generate the expected table from provided > references, but anyway it's less practical than a straight published table. > Having this material published under a free license would make it far more > useful in any kind of study with such an extensive goal in its publication. > > Now, switching to a free license would not make the change retroactive, > but it would already cover new material. Also it should be possible to > contact most posters through their email and ask permission to release > their previous publications under one or more free licenses and change > archive metadata accordingly. > > Legale, > mathieu > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
