At 12:26 AM 9/5/00 -0400, Heidi M. Anderson wrote:
>How many of you explicitly copyright your FAQs in the text
>of the document. Why or why not?
I don't in most of mine. It seem silly to me, because I write the FAQs (usually with lots of help from the group of people the FAQ serves) to share knowledge, and free copying helps me do that. I distribute the FAQ on Usenet in such a way that I know that many copies will be made and archives created. That is what I want to happen. The copyright is automatic, anyway. I do give contact information and usually add explicit permission to make unmodified copies and distribute them freely. If I were interested in making money off of the FAQ or paranoid about someone else claiming it as their own, I would take a different approach. As it is, I think I would welcome someone taking over some of my FAQs if they would do a good job of it. :-)
Your mileage may vary. Claim a copyright, a copyleft (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), or dedicate the work to the public domain as you see fit. It is your FAQ.
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Michael Paul Johnson
mpj@eBible.org http://ebible.org/mpj
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