Ok... Badly worded. RTFM does not reqire permission be granted in advance
to retrieve the files on RTFM other than following the copyrights placed on
the individual documents by the FAQ authors/maintainers. I was under the
(memory fading) assumption that Jonathan had disavowed any compliation
copyright on RTFM shortly after the archive was initially established as a
part of the news.answers creation. As I remember, there was some fear of
compilation copyrights shortly after news.answers started to take off.
You are correct that a mirror is a copy of a compilation. I was talking
about a specific case, not in general. In this case here is the Copyright
notice that RTFM displays.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Nearly all of the files contained in this directory are copyrighted
| by their respective maintainers. (Even files without explicit
| copyright notices are copyrighted under the international Berne
| Convention, in effect in most countries.) Some of the files,
| although certainly not all, prohibit redistribution for any
| commercial purposes without prior approval; other kinds of
| restrictions may also be imposed by the maintainers.
|
| Approval for use when there are restrictions imposed must be
| obtained from the maintainers of each file, *NOT* from the
| maintainers of this archive. If you have any doubts about whether
| you may redistribute a particular file for some particular purpose,
| contact its author.
|
| Making a copy for your own personal reading is implicitly allowed.
Sorry for the bad wording.
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