Re: Legal boilerplates policy (was: [xml] Namespace normalization/reconciliation)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:30:57PM +0200, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 12:32, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> >   As explained many time already, those legal boileplate are completely
> > incompatible with the mailing list usage since we *must* archive, index
> > and make public the mails send there. Please fix on your end, or change
> > the email your sent from. We do not intend to comply to your restrictions,
> > that you're inflicting on the list users and maintainers, reread that
> > crap it's not acceptable really ! You can get that kind of garantee
> > in closed source (a.k.a. proprietary) environment, please indicate to
> > whoever put that policy forward that it's not compatible with common
> > open-source community work.
>
> Rather than having to address this issue on an ad hoc basis (this issue
> will continue to pop up as long as corporations have lawyers), how about
> adding a "shrink-wrap" clause to the subscription procedure that
> requires the subscriber to grant you the rights to archive and publish
> their correspondence on the mailing-list? If they refuse to accept, they
> will not be subscribed.

  I don't think it's possible in the current mailman based mailing-list
we use at gnomr.org :-\

Daniel

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