On Thursday 05 Mar 2009, shirish wrote: > [snip] > @ Raj Mathur . Its your prerogative to do whatever suing you want to > for as you my 'persistent combative, militant licensing' > > If it was an attempt to intimidate me or an attempt at humor then > both are unfortunately lost for neither makes sense to me.
Sorry to hear that. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine whether it was meant to be humour or intimidation. > Let's say that shirish was not just shirisha...@gmail.com but > shirisha...@redhat.com or shirisha...@ubuntu.com (Please remember > this is all hypothetical) > > and let's say redhat (or ubuntu) as a matter of policy on their SMTP > Server puts a signature which gets added to every mail something on > the lines of > > a. It may have intellectual property so the reader shouldn't disclose > it. Disclosing the same may lead to suing. > b. If due to advice or help given in the mail, if there is any damage > to a person's computer/data etc. the company wouldn't be held liable. > > From a company's stand point it may be the right thing to do. I'm glad to inform you that you're not being singled out just because you post from a gmail address: quasi-legal crap is explicitly forbidden on most mailing lists. There have been enough cases on, e.g. the Linux-India mailing lists (and AFAIR this one too) where people posting with corporate disclaimers and legal notices have been politely (or maybe not so politely) asked to post from another address. Some of those people were from the top companies in the FOSS arena. Ask anyone who's been around for a few years on public (specially FOSS-related) mailing lists and you'll hear the same answer: legal notices of any sort in individual messages are just not on. I believe you have got the same response from other people on other mailing lists in India too. Now that we've hopefully got over the victimisation issue, let me reiterate the points I'd made: What if two different people post to the list under incompatible licences? What becomes of the list archives? Who is liable for a breach of licence? Who is required to enforce the licence? Can the archives be copied for backup purposes? Can the archives be posted on the Internet? Can you transfer them to your friend on CD? Can you sell that CD for Rs. 2.50? How about for Rs. 2,50,000? How do you share the revenue if a licence demands it? What if one licence demands revenue sharing and another demands no revenue? Will you be willing to help someone who wants to sell the ILUGD archives for, say, Rs 15 (DVD cost) to remove all your messages and quotes of your messages before she sells it? Frankly I doubt if there can be any answers to these questions, since the whole concept of having parts of individual documents in a heterogeneous aggregation under separate, possibly mutually exclusive licences is meaningless. It'd be a bit like permitting each editor of a wiki page to specify a licence for each character and word that she adds/deletes/modifies, and about as fruitful. 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/
