> > I
> > have not waived any rights to my FAQ except those that are spelled out
> > in its license. And the license specifically states that "it may not be
> > sold for profit or incorporated in commercial documents without the
> > written permission of the copyright holder." What part of that do you
> > not understand?
>
> I understand all of it. What I'd like to know is when you're going to
> send a letter to UUNet, PSI, NetCom, Best Internet Comm, and the
> hundreds (thousands?) of other companies that sell your FAQ for profit
> everytime you post it.
Terry Carroll commented, in his post on copyright on the
net, about what posters can and should expect about the
mechanism of propagating your FAQ. It is assumed and
understood by anyone with an active cortex, for example,
that when I post a message it is transmitted across a
(literally) uncountable number of for-pay links, and that
that should not be considered a violation. On the other
hand, it is patently obvious that such a reasonable
expectation does not exist where CD distributions are
concerned.
This is a matter of no small concern to me for the newsgroup
I moderate, since the posters there are very concerned about
copyright issues, and others selling their documents "for
profit." By a strict interpretation this is meaningless, as
you observe with your example of UUNET, PSI and so on, but
on the other hand it is not unreasonable for these people to
ask that their work not be taken up and published in a
magazine. You seem to be arguing that no legal distinction
can be made between these two situations, which I do not
find credible.
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