Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:54:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: des@ofug.org, dougb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020429125224.55944I-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020428.223454.30171647.imp@village.org>
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On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <xzppu0jcqw0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes: > : Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : > * Add Rush Limbaugh's 35 Undeniable Truths of Life. The ordering > : > of the entries is due to the ../tools/do_sort script. > : > : These fortunes are, at best, controversial, and at worst, strongly > : offensive to a significant share of our user base (starting with the > : entire female portion of it, small as it may be). They should be > : moved into fortunes-o. > > And chances are good that using them in their entirety is a copyright > violation.... Yeah, if you grep -i copyright in the fortune database, it's interesting to note that those are almost the only references to the word "copyright". Generally short excerpts fall under fair use, and don't require specific copyright reference, just attribution. And in the event these don't fall under fair use, they should be removed. Since I'm not familiar with the body of work they come from, I can't comment on whether they represent such a significant fraction of the work that they might not. The only other bits of the fortunate database I've really had doubts about from that perspective are the Dave Barry quotes, but those clearly represent a very small (and properly attributed) fraction of the total bodies in question. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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