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Re: Listar users... anybody?

Subject: Re: Listar users... anybody?
From: Nadeem Hasan (nhasanusa.net)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 22:18:22 CST

Still, someone else can publish the same idea
as his own if he knew it already. How can you RESERVE
a right to publish that idea? I know about open source
and open content license, BTW. You don't have to
announce it to everyone that you RESERVE the right!
Just say this material is GPL'd. Why do you want to
do that if all you want is an open license!
I can always write the same thing in different words
and publish it as my own. I can as I did it before
you came up with this RESERVED thing.

Anyway, what you are talking about belongs to postfix
FAQ. Nothing big that requires its own HOWTO and
license.

Thanks,

Nadeem

Alex Miller wrote:
>
> I'm planning on writing an Open Source document.
> Anyone can publish it. Anyone can add to it. An
> open-source document is like open-source software.
>
> I wish what I write on the subject to be
> free and open-source. The way I protect THAT
> is to copyright anything I write on the
> subject. I can't copyright anything that
> ISN'T mine. Open-source is a LICENSE. That
> is, copyright is RESERVED, and rights to publish
> are granted.
>
> > I am already using this technique with postfix and listar. By
> > claiming this so called copyright, you mean I cannot publish
> > it on my own? Why do you need to RESERVE a copyright? What next,
> > file a patent maybe.
> >
> > Nadeem
>
> It's not so-called copyright. It IS copyright.
> Whatever I write is copyright and if I want
> to state that copyright I can.
>
> Anything YOU write is your business. You may
> copyright it, grant license with it, anything
> you want.
>
> At any rate, I will repost my email, with the
> open-source LICENSE which will, among other
> things, allow anyone to publish it.
>
> I should have done that in the first place
> but I figured that people on this list
> understood enough about the open-source
> movement to realize that I needed to reserve
> copyright if I want to license the same
> material using an open-source license.
>
> I'll need a little time to get it, I was reading
> an article on the license recently.
>
> Alex Miller

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