On Sat, May 05, 2001, Sergio Brandano wrote: > By law, there must be a legal agreement between the author and the > publisher. If no such explicit agreement exists, then the author is > still the owner of the copy-rights, and can decide what to do with > that material, at any time.
You still have the right to descide to what you do with your material. But when you send to a mailinglist you usually (as in usual practice) you also give the listadmin the permission to distribute it - otherwise a mailinglist wouldn't work. You were able to see _before_ you subscribed that there are public archives of the list, that has never been a secret. It is not Debians fault that you didn't realise that. Nevertheless you have given by sending your message the implicite permission that it will be added to the lists-archive. Period, EOD. > By posting to a mailing list, the author is exerting his right to > publish, and he/she is the publisher in that very moment. The post is No - the listadmin is the publisher, if you try to imagine. If you send a feedback to a magazine and it is printed the magazine is the publisher, not you. > addressed to those people in the list *only*, and re-posting is, in > principle, not legal. As said already often enough, it was never a secret that there are list-archives, they are also mentioned on the page where you subscribe. If you haven't read the pages it is your fault, not debians. > By implementing an archiving policy, Debian is a publisher. By implementing a mailinglist the listadmin is a publisher. Think about it. > Please also make explicit the policy with Debian mailing lists, and > ensure that its subscribers are notified and agree with it. You can't make people read what they don't want to. Do you read all the agreements you sign? I doubt so - but you should. So start by _reading_ the pages with the subscription-informations: <http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.en.html> - it is written explizitly down that there _are_ archives of the list. If you haven't seen that it's your fault, don't blame Debian for that. HAND, Alfie -- To err is human, To purr feline. -- Robert Byrne