PS: Is working like NASSCOM the traction for FOSSCOMM

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Raj Mathur<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 Sep 2009, tb dinesh wrote:
>> [snip]
>> I would say that we should have a policy that represents the public
>> domain lists at large, whatever that is that we have to fight to the
>> copy right fair use. Not have some thing to feel safe.
>
> Not clear, could you rephrase that?

Re-ing:
I would say that we should have a policy that represents the (public)
(domain) lists at large, whatever that is, that we have to fight for the
copy right fair use case. Not just have some thing to feel safe - esp.,
the sense of "safe" that is deemed as progressive, say, by NASSCOM.

.. and some-ing:
Its one thing to indicate that we are aware of the issues. And to
work towards certain policy changes of the policy that get otherwise
defined, say by NASSCOMmies. For this, we may have to be politically
informed players. But identifying FOSSCOMM as an organization/company
in this way, would be suggesting that communities are indeed just that.

>> If we have a need to set that in the policy, we can be explicit about
>> this disclaimer
>> i.e., Message specific licenses may not hold ground
>
> I'm not particularly in favour of public domain either, since that
> waives all rights.  Something that retains the freedom to do as you
> please with the content without letting anyone proprietarise it (e.g.
> CC-BY-SA) may be more appropriate.  Agreed that there must be clear
> overall licence for content posted to the list, though, and not
> individual licences on individual mail messages (which may even be
> technically meaningless, since as a recipient I have to agree to a
> licence before I receive the material, not after the material is already
> with me -- retroactive conditions like "By reading this mail you agree
> to feed me pizza" don't work in any communications setup).
>

Right, as in many of the confidentiality disclaimers in corporate
emails that end with some claimer that says something like:

   if this mail was not meant for you (and you have
   read it in spite, haven't you?), you will loose your pizzaz.

   Ha ha

Indeed. Ha ha.
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