Re: request
From: Gerfried Fuchs
> Do you read all the agreements you sign?
Of course I do. And if I do not like an agreement,
I simply do not sign it.
In the case with Debian, there is no such agreement;
as if there where one such agreement, then any material
posted in its lists would be a Debian copyrighted
material, i.e. it would display a "(c) Debian" in it.
The author of any past and present Debian posts is
still the owner of the copyrights, and can withdraw
his posts at any time, unless there is some other
special agreement in that sense. Please note that
"agreement" is not something that you have to
accept; an agreement is an act of freedom, and
Debian can not make any claims of ownership based
on the mere fact that an author has sent an email
to a list of people. Please read below.
From: Florian Lohoff
> Why not sending out an text on list subscription where the subscriber
> agrees that his emails will be set under a special license like the
> Open Content which states that the original author has to be named
> which is the case inthe archive as the "From:" line is shown.
>
> In software we prefer open source and most people even like the GPL
> whereas your contribution to a project is automatically set under the
> GPL. Why not doing the same for the list archive. Its a contribution
> to the Debian Project and IMHO we should treat it the same.
Thank you Florian. This is indeed the right interpretation.
I am glad of your message.
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