From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 03:27:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B703716A474 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:27:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thisdayislong@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CA043D45 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:27:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thisdayislong@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x30so28276nfb for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:26:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Fl7ZBKWIPjoQCsxNaC8dJ0AFQfYBSvbIRTU21Djbyrhq/Y7CsDoNp7gHGmsk1R3u79/k1L62iMZSqelb9mOJrU4zCw3UAAuwfDR9cJyC+GBrY4BSSC7PcZdIlOnB26jmERoJI1+0qBfKBQZBWSq23MBM+aLOUdIXJQlIFtNbwoY= Received: by 10.48.221.6 with SMTP id t6mr112507nfg; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.3.19 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:26:58 -0400 From: Brett To: danial_thom@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <20060621002928.55056.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060621002928.55056.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: zionicman@gmail.com, Ingrid Kast Fuller , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious breach of copyright -- First post X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:27:01 -0000 On 6/20/06, Danial Thom wrote: > > > User manuals and how-tos don't generally get > copyright notices, because there is nothing > creative about it. Someone could write exactly > the same thing (just about), and you'd have > little claim to it because its just a procedural > description. What, is the formatting of your > index unique or something? Not at all. The entire procedure is unique. That's why it's helpful to others, hopefully. Check out the FreeBSD handbook. It's full of copyright notices. I don't think someone's going to come out with a FreeBSD handbook without images and claim that they wrote it, and then get away with it. And even then, the copyright notice is just a formality. > > But that aside, I was more amused by the subject > "serious breach of copyright", as if someone had > taken your claim for writing War and Peace or > something. They didn't even explicitly put a > byline on it. Its just a how-to on a web page. > > And where are the credits for all of the how-tos > you read to gain this knowledge? Why doesn't > their work count? You should have a full > bibliography. After all, credit is important! > > Like I said, who cares. > > DT > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >