Hoi,
You deny the existence of copyright.. It being public does not mean that it
is fair game for any and all purposes.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 24 November 2017 at 14:39, Vi to <vituzzu.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Archives are public, so, IMHO, the list is.
>
> Vito
>
> 2017-11-24 11:11 GMT+01:00 mathieu stumpf guntz <
> psychosl...@culture-libre.org>:
>
> > Saluton ĉiuj,
> >
> > Le 23/11/2017 à 20:54, Emeric Vallespi a écrit :
> >
> >> I think it was important to re-explain all those points so that the
> >> community, which is - again - unnecessarily taken as witness, is not
> >> deceived by a scenario built from scratch.
> >> Again, to discredit the movement by such erroneous but public
> accusations
> >> still shows that only personal interests and vainness matter in this
> >> conflict with some people.
> >>
> >> I seize the opportunity to ask: what is the legal status of the list? Is
> > it considered public?
> >
> > I mean, it's easy to subscribe for anyone, but you still have to
> > subscribe. And as far as I know, accessing archives require to login. Now
> > there are other website which make crawled archives publicly accessible,
> > but just because some do that doesn't mean it's legal.
> >
> > Also I'm not aware of any license regarding posted emails, so plain
> > copyright probably apply, minus any exception related to epistolary
> > material that might exist.
> >
> > It might be interesting to make any post to our mailing list a free
> > licensed material. I've been thinking about that as I had the idea to
> > extensively analyse the wikidata-l mailling list and publish a side by
> side
> > statements and extracted keywords elements, but from a legal point of
> view
> > it is probably not feasible. That might be circumvented with links, or
> > providing a software which generate the expected table from provided
> > references, but anyway it's less practical than a straight published
> table.
> > Having this material published under a free license would make it far
> more
> > useful in any kind of study with such an extensive goal in its
> publication.
> >
> > Now, switching to a free license would not make the change retroactive,
> > but it would already cover new material. Also it should be possible to
> > contact most posters through their email and ask permission to release
> > their previous publications under one or more free licenses and change
> > archive metadata accordingly.
> >
> > Legale,
> > mathieu
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