Re: Preferred license for forums content - Part II
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Sebastian Feltel wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 23:32:17, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > It probably isn't legitimate to claim a license in this manner in most
> > jurisdictions anyway. You normally need an explicit grant from the
> > copyright holder (while there are some case-law precedents in some
> > places for certain forms of implicit licensing, they're lawyer-bait
> > and not something to be relied upon).
>
> You are probably right, but what other options do I have? Asking all
> Users which have posted (~5000 Users, ~200000 Postings) will be an
> endless task. I think writing an Note in the "Post a Topic"-Page
> which states the licensing situation will be adequate. So everyone
> who dont agree to the new license can stop posting and/or writing
> "My Post is licensed under ...." under his posting.
You really want some sort of tacit assent though. Like a checkbox or
simlar that people have to check to indicate that their post is
licensed under a specific license.[1] Implicit assent is pretty weak.
You also may consider having some sort of form where users who have a
login can mark their previous posts as being licensed under the
MIT/X11 license in adition to whatever license they were using
previously.
Don Armstrong
1: I see no reason why you couldn't have this as part of the account
settings for registered users, so long as it was obvious what they
were agreeing to do.
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