On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, D. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I know my FAQ is sent to my newsgroup, news.answers, and
> rec.answers, and is mirrored at www.faqs.org. I've recently become
> aware of some web sites harvesting and carrying copies of my FAQ for
> themselves at their own web sites and am wondering about this.
Are they giving you credit and leaving it unmodified (mostly) ?
That's what I ask for. Just mention your requirements in the
copyright.
Andrew Gierth has an interesting copyright on his UNIX programming
faq. Try the mirror at http://www.whitefang.com/unix/ He forbids
anyone who isn't an *.answers mirror from putting up public copies
without his permission -- basically.
> In my case this is a legacy FAQ that has has a few maintainers
> before me and likely will be passed by me on to another down the
> road to handle when I am no longer able to.
IANL but I'm sure this brings in complications in terms of being
fair to previous maintainers.
-- Thamer Al-Herbish PGP public key: shadows@whitefang.com http://www.whitefang.com/pgpkey.txt [ The Secure UNIX Programming FAQ http://www.whitefang.com/sup/ ]
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