On Wednesday 04 Mar 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: > The way I see it, foss is all about being "reasonable", and having an > appropriate level of respect of other peoples time and effort. The > free/cc licenses are meant to allow civilised people to use other > people's content within the boundaries of that reason. > > Shirish's way of attribution seemed perfectly reasonable to me but > was apparently not compliant with the license. Makes me think that > perhaps the license needs to be relaxed a bit. We need to encourage > people who are just trying to spread the good word of foss, not > alienate them. With Free communities, carrots work better than > sticks..
Unfortunately Shirish' postings under a specific licence are incompatible with the spirit of mailing lists. What if I decide to license all my mails to the list under, say, CC-BY-SA. What if you decide to use the GNU FDL for all your mails? What if someone else decides to licence her mails under the MS documentation licence? What if yet another person chooses yet another licence? The resulting chaos will be too great to handle. Even backing up your own local copy of the archives may become illegal if everyone posting to the list chooses his/her own licence for their posts. Software projects are well aware of the difficulties of maintaining a single entity under multiple licences, which is why the successful ones insist that all contributions be licensed under the umbrella licence of the project itself. I suggest that exactly the same applies to public mailing lists -- all posts are licensed under the umbrella licence of the list: One licence to rule them all, One licence to find them, One licence to bring them all And in the darkness bind them. [with apologies to J R R Tolkien] Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
