From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 21 21:55:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B7F16A474 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:55:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33311.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33311.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59C4443D48 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:55:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 49185 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Jun 2006 21:55:46 -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:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=2UfZSRQyX7ImbS/4KmaxClhaOjdbok1EDeM9JGkuEi4ZTwNTJWCFkXJv/5YpszU3ZFF9F60mSjevA+KVX7fdbj8WGjkT3nY76sxiZITOZ72kQFk2VVINLuBc/JfzASjQ9i4tU1EYkaMnJihG1jRDvW5QEMgPPbROjox2WHumx6M= ; Message-ID: <20060621215546.49183.qmail@web33311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.34.182.15] by web33311.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:55:46 PDT Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:55:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom To: Brett In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: zionicman@gmail.com, Ingrid Kast Fuller , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious breach of copyright -- First post X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:55:48 -0000 --- Brett wrote: > On 6/20/06, Danial Thom > wrote: > > > > > > 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? > > Not at all. The entire procedure is unique. > That's why > it's helpful to others, hopefully. > > Check out the FreeBSD handbook. It's full of > copyright notices. > I don't think someone's going to come out with > a FreeBSD handbook > without images and claim that they wrote it, > and then get away with it. > And even then, the copyright notice is just a > formality. > > > > > > 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 > > Maybe we can get Ingrid to put your mailing address on there also so we can send you cards, gifts and cash donations. Can you make that about 2 points bigger also? We wouldn't want anyone to miss it. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com