Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:43:38 -0500 From: Mike Hauber <m.hauber@mchsi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: favor Message-ID: <200502042343.39455.m.hauber@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <205350680.20050205043947@wanadoo.fr> References: <4203F451.9070307@cis.strath.ac.uk> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEEAFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <205350680.20050205043947@wanadoo.fr>
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On Friday 04 February 2005 10:39 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > TM> If you post on a public forum, by implication you are > giving that TM> forum permission to publish your copyrighted > material. > > No, you're not. If you post to a public forum, you're giving > implicit permission for your posts to be visible _within that > forum_. You are not giving implicit permission for any other > type of publication external to the forum ... and that includes > mirroring on a Web site archive. > > The only way to get around this is to require agreement to > licensing of posts as a condition of joining the forum. > Not wanting to jump into this, because I think the whole of the argument is ridiculous... But, in a nutshell... Aren't you trying to make the same argument that SCO is trying to make? (all due respect, of course) I just don't see the validity of "I don't care if the code was legally released to the open source communities eons ago! I don't care how much time and effort has been spent building on it. It's mine and I want it back!" Don't get me wrong. I've made public posts that I look back and cringe on because I know it's still out there somewhere. Hell... Maybe there's only two of us. That's life, and we live it anyway. Fact is, the cats out of the bag, and I have yet to meet a cat that likes bags. :) Bewildered, but ducking out just the same... Mike
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