Hi, On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 08:51:44PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> In general, not neccessarily Hurd-specific, is there consensus ``in > the Net'' and amongst lawyers on what the copyright and licensing > conditions are with respect to putting texts by individuals that > appears on projects' mailing lists or other forums, for example, email > or IRC messages, into official web pages or documentation? I don't know of any consensus; but in general, people retain the copyright on any mails they send. There is nothing indicating that they somehow relinquish it when posting to our lists... We *could* send an auto-reply message with a confirmation link the first time someone post to the list, and ask them to click "I agree" (to transferring copyright) -- but I don't think this is a good idea... We can always ask for explicit permission when there is an interesting posting. As for IRC, I guess most conversations are simply not creative enough to be copyrightable :-) (Moral rights doubtless still apply though -- so think twice before quoting out of context ;-) ) -antrik-
