On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 23:00, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:03:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > ...and then asserted your own copyright, exclusively, on the result. > > It is not a copyright, but a copyleft. And there is much of my own > collecting.
Try and find "copyleft" in the dictionary (hint, it's not there). And read that: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html "Copyleft" is a made-up word, a pun on "copyright". All the creations are either copyrighted or public domain. Being "copyleft" doesn't mean anything. > > But I don't insist that you do anything in particular. You want the > > world to know that the document is "Copyleft 2002 by Jesus Climent" and > > not copyrighted by (i.e., not the work of) anyone else, even in part. > > History is written by the victors, and as far as I'm concerned if you > > want this victory so badly you can have it. > > Just wanted to collect the info I found around. I give up. Then don't claim the copyright for things you didn't write. > > You seem to have almost completely missed my point, and I haven't the > > energy to try and persuade you to adopt my philosophy of authorship and > > credit, so hopefully we can mutually agree to let the issue drop. > > If trying to collect some info and be a source of help for others is > seen as a way to have a victory, I refuse to continue doing so. > > I have been crediting anyone how has activelly helped to get the doc in > a better shape, and linked the sources of my info at the end. In no way > I was trying to credit my authorship of the doc, but of the compilation > of such documentation. Just say so on the documentation then. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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