Date: Thu, 13 Jan 94 10:03:31 PST
From: Vivian Neou <vivian@nisc.sri.com>
To: aboba@netcom.com
Cc: vivian@NISC.SRI.COM
Subject: IBM PC TCP/IP FAQ
I'd like to include your FAQ in a manual that will go with a CD-ROM
that I'm putting together for SRI International (Iit will be
distributed by Prentice Hall). I'd like to include the whole FAQ if
I have enough space. I didn't see any restrictions on doing this in
the FAQ, but I wanted to make sure that it was okay with you before I
proceed. Thanks.
Vivian Neou
vivian@nisc.sri.com
This letter left me shaken, since my FAQ was developed as part of a
forthcoming book which I have been working on for the last year. I am
depending on this book to provide a portion of my income in the
coming year, and the publication of my work by Prentice Hall would
probably result in the cancellation of the book, and leave me in
pretty bad economic shape.
I realize that I probably left myself open to exploitation like this
by not putting an explicit notice on my FAQ, and am going to remedy
this immediately. Find below my draft copyright notice; any
suggestions are appreciated.
*********** Notice to Spaghetti Publishers ********
A spaghetti publisher is one whose philosphy of publishing is
to "throw it at the wall and see if it sticks." Over the
last few months, they been very busy putting out badly written
Internet books, and are looking for yet more material they
can rush into print in their ever greedier search for easy $.
Lately, spaghetti publishers have taken to exploiting FAQs,
and lists, often publishing them without obtaining written
permission. This is an abuse of the copyright laws, and threatens
the continued viability of the FAQ system which benefits us all.
These are the same publishers who would sue at the drop of a hat
if anyone so much as used a figure from their books without
permission.
This FAQ is Copyright (C) 1994 by Bernard Aboba, and is made
available as a service to the Internet community. It may not
be sold in any medium, including electronic, CD-ROM, or database,
or published in print, without the explicit, written permission of
Bernard Aboba.
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