[ILUG-BOM] should we trivialise the creative commons license [was] Bulletin boards using free software

[jtd]

On Monday 12 January 2009 23:46, Atanu Datta wrote:
> On Mon, January 12, 2009 11:20 pm, Rony said:
> > Philip Tellis wrote:
> >>>> why license at all?
> >>
> >> IIRC, all mails to this list are in the Public Domain.  I
> >> believe that was always the intent - at least as far back as I
> >> can remember. Perhaps we should make this explicit in the
> >> guidelines so that people who don't like that can refrain from
> >> mailing the list.
> >
> > Just want to mention my experience with messages on this list. I
> > had written a mail about an issue of LFY and it included a
> > balanced view. In the next month's issue I find my message on
> > this list being printed in the letters section and they neatly
> > assembled only those lines that were positive about LFY. All this
> > without my knowledge of the same.
>
> Regret that permission was not taken from you in addition to you
> not being notified about it. If you could direct me to the mail
> (from the mailing list archives) and the issue of LFY where it was
> published, it'd help me review that matter.

Dont tell me your editors dont know anything about attributions and 
copyright. If they quote partly, especially without permission they 
should point out the source.

-- 
Rgds
JTD