Capsule summary: Indeed, most publishers have not requested explicit
permission from the authors/maintainers of documents. (Walnut Creek
has made more effort than many others by sending email to
faq-maintainers offering to remove specific documents upon request of
their authors/maintainers.)
Opinions on the legality and morality of CD-ROM publishers in not
explicitly contacting authors/maintainers vary *VERY* widely amongst
the subscribers to this mailing list: some feel they are scum and
should be ostracized and maybe even some legal action taken; some feel
that it is not feasible for publishers to contact everyone and that
what they do is pretty reasonable; and some feel that what the
publishers do is absolutely OK because it's just another form of
distribution, and cannot understand why anyone is getting so upset
about it. (I make no representation that these three factions
described cover everyone, or that they are contingents of equal size.)
I'm not going to try to squash discussion if people must rehash the
issues, but I will ask that everybody to accept that it is quite
possible for intelligent reasonable people to have dissenting
opinions, and to recognize that it is not always possible to convert
others to your opinion by sheer volume of arguments. :)
--- Yours in Leadership, Friendship, and Service, Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@mit.edu), probably speaking for himself
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