Re: request
On Sat, May 05, 2001, Sergio Brandano wrote:
> By law, there must be a legal agreement between the author and the
> publisher. If no such explicit agreement exists, then the author is
> still the owner of the copy-rights, and can decide what to do with
> that material, at any time.
You still have the right to descide to what you do with your material.
But when you send to a mailinglist you usually (as in usual practice)
you also give the listadmin the permission to distribute it - otherwise
a mailinglist wouldn't work. You were able to see _before_ you
subscribed that there are public archives of the list, that has never
been a secret. It is not Debians fault that you didn't realise that.
Nevertheless you have given by sending your message the implicite
permission that it will be added to the lists-archive. Period, EOD.
> By posting to a mailing list, the author is exerting his right to
> publish, and he/she is the publisher in that very moment. The post is
No - the listadmin is the publisher, if you try to imagine. If you
send a feedback to a magazine and it is printed the magazine is the
publisher, not you.
> addressed to those people in the list *only*, and re-posting is, in
> principle, not legal.
As said already often enough, it was never a secret that there are
list-archives, they are also mentioned on the page where you subscribe.
If you haven't read the pages it is your fault, not debians.
> By implementing an archiving policy, Debian is a publisher.
By implementing a mailinglist the listadmin is a publisher. Think
about it.
> Please also make explicit the policy with Debian mailing lists, and
> ensure that its subscribers are notified and agree with it.
You can't make people read what they don't want to. Do you read all
the agreements you sign? I doubt so - but you should. So start by
_reading_ the pages with the subscription-informations:
<http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.en.html> - it is written
explizitly down that there _are_ archives of the list. If you haven't
seen that it's your fault, don't blame Debian for that.
HAND,
Alfie
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To err is human,
To purr feline.
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