On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:02:08PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I reasoned that pointing out his error would be sufficient to prompt him > to rectify it, as I expected that he was an ethical person. Instead, > his reaction has been to remove the entire work. Perhaps he feels that > it is better that the world do without, than to take a few minutes to > credit his sources. But I don't really know -- it is difficult to > speculate. I took the page down to have some time to add the credits people deserve. But I must confess when I took it down I was feeling a bit ... angry? > He was doing a good thing, but it was undermined through his discourtesy > of not explicitly crediting sources and asserting exclusive copyright > over the result. If he hadn't done the latter the former wouldn't have > bothered me nearly as much. As I said, I did not try to geopardize the resulting document. I tried to state that the document, being a document of pieces from other people who stated the will of allowing people to modify it at will, was covered under the same idea. I did not think the "cpyleft" statement had such a strong (need a word here, is 8 in Finland and I just woke up). > Indeed, which is why I did not personally insult Sr. Climent in any way. I never said you did. > I have not asked for an admission of error or for an apology, just for > the problem to be fixed. And you got the admission, apology, and a fix under way. ;) I think I am going to join Amaya in her Fan Club. ;) J -- Jesus Climent | Unix SysAdm | Helsinki, Finland | pumuki.hispalinux.es GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #66350 proudly using Debian 3.0 & Linux 2.4.20 We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. --C-3PO (Star Wars)
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