On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Sebastian Feltel wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 23:32:17, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > It probably isn't legitimate to claim a license in this manner in most > > jurisdictions anyway. You normally need an explicit grant from the > > copyright holder (while there are some case-law precedents in some > > places for certain forms of implicit licensing, they're lawyer-bait > > and not something to be relied upon). > > You are probably right, but what other options do I have? Asking all > Users which have posted (~5000 Users, ~200000 Postings) will be an > endless task. I think writing an Note in the "Post a Topic"-Page > which states the licensing situation will be adequate. So everyone > who dont agree to the new license can stop posting and/or writing > "My Post is licensed under ...." under his posting.
You really want some sort of tacit assent though. Like a checkbox or simlar that people have to check to indicate that their post is licensed under a specific license.[1] Implicit assent is pretty weak. You also may consider having some sort of form where users who have a login can mark their previous posts as being licensed under the MIT/X11 license in adition to whatever license they were using previously. Don Armstrong 1: I see no reason why you couldn't have this as part of the account settings for registered users, so long as it was obvious what they were agreeing to do. -- Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming them to crisp is bad behaviour, I have not yet achieved a state of nirvana. -- Manoj Srivastava in [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
