From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 00:29:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F8E16A4D1 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88CDB43DA4 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:29:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 55058 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Jun 2006 00:29:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=QSkqg2vGAvo4snglj0mvHUbg3p3jtqAYfwmwYNxca4HD9nzrDuI3c0NUeSx2v+81q1wHG9w4wGrbdTOlJCwUv2uZBCFJ71M1+ucttUP+uI8uvapPUjRKzRng/w+nM2EL07in7UZ9e/2JDPsylTQIL2xZDmnZz+G5kY7kpCiaH94= ; Message-ID: <20060621002928.55056.qmail@web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.34.182.15] by web33303.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:29:28 PDT Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:29:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom To: Brett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ingrid Kast Fuller In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Serious breach of copyright -- First post X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:29:59 -0000 --- Brett wrote: > On 6/19/06, Christopher Weldon > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Brett wrote: > > > Obviously, you have never spent days trying > out a relatively > > > undocumented procedure, finally getting it > right, and then decided to > > > help others out by writing a howto > document. I am perfectly happy > > > that Ingrid decided to host this document > on her site, but credit was > > > due. Some people do care about the stuff > they create. > > > > > > Try writing something of value, and maybe > then you'll be qualified to > > > talk about copyright. > > > > > > > > > > True to the fact that credit was due, I think > most everyone on this list > > has written at least 1 report (or many more) > or created some form of > > work sometime in their lives incumbent of > deserving copyright > > recognition. So, flaunting that someone is > not qualified to talk about > > copyright is most certainly inadequate. > > Danial's comment, which was nothing short of, > "who cares who wrote > that stupid article", was insulting and still > more inadequate. User manuals and how-tos don't generally get copyright notices, because there is nothing creative about it. Someone could write exactly the same thing (just about), and you'd have little claim to it because its just a procedural description. What, is the formatting of your index unique or something? But that aside, I was more amused by the subject "serious breach of copyright", as if someone had taken your claim for writing War and Peace or something. They didn't even explicitly put a byline on it. Its just a how-to on a web page. And where are the credits for all of the how-tos you read to gain this knowledge? Why doesn't their work count? You should have a full bibliography. After all, credit is important! Like I said, who cares. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com