> Since I did not purchase the rights to any of the material in the
> FAQ from the original contributors, I can not in good conscience
> charge anyone else for the use of that FAQ. There is no way I could
> defend reselling someone elses' ideas and words when they were freely
> given to me.
If you don't have the right to sell their words, why do you feel that
you have a right to give them away? On the other hand, barring
collective documents from publication just because it's impossible
to credit/compensate the author of every included bit doesn't seem
right, either.
(One of the standard answers, 'give the proceeds to charity', only
works up to a point... who gets to decide what charity?)
<slight change of subject>
Someone should look up the legal definition of a compilation copyright
and post it to this list...
- Aliza, author of perhaps 95% of 'my' roguelike games FAQ...
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