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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
I haven't yet seen a resolution to the question of what licence mails to a mailing list are subject to yet (remember having this discussion as far back as 1996 or so), but IMO each individual contributor mailing under a licence of his/her choice is unacceptable. What if one person selects the GFDL for her mails, another CC-BY, another CC-SA, another CC-NC, and a few more select a few more licences? It will be impossible to do anything with the list archives... heck, even backing up your private copy of the archives may become illegal.
There should be a blanket licence for all postings to the list, and if an individual contributor doesn't like that s/he is welcome to not post to the list at all. List admins?
OK... This looks like a nice argument against licensing individual mails to list..
Let us debate it a little more and we will make necessary changes in the list guidelines.
Regards,
-- Raju
With regards,