On Saturday 05 Sep 2009, Vickram Crishna wrote: > [snip] > On licensing: in theory, cc licenses enable the licensor to empower > all readers to reuse the content under certain circumstances, spelled > out in the license, and mostly relating for all intents and purposes, > to attribution. As against this, a 'public' email carries no such > clarification, and assuming that one (as a recipient) is free to > repeat, or in any other manner, reuse the contents with or without > attribution is not borne out by history, ie reality check. > 'Fair use' is a matter that continues to pose problems for legal > systems around the world, and I doubt the legal experts on this list > have the authority to pronounce judgment on those who choose to > encumber their posts with such lengthy signatures.
However, that licence does carry specific penalties with it. The person in question licenses his/her posts as: by-nc, which means that the mail cannot be used in a commercial work. This causes issues -- for example, someone in an Internet-less part of India asks me for a copy of the list archives on CD. I make the CD and send it to him, charging him Rs 25 for the media and transfer costs. By doing this I'm violating the licence of the mail and am technically liable to be prosecuted for copyright violation. Effectively, the licence prevents anyone from ever using or quoting the mail in a context where money is involved, the alternative being to seek out and destroy all the OP's mails before doing anything useful with the archives. This, to me, is unacceptable and anti-social behaviour. I hope the OP stops the process of licensing individual mails. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur [email protected] 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 _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
