Permission for use of copyrighted work
Hi Bobby,
On 05.02.2012 13:13, Bobbty wrote:
> I was thinking of writing a channel specific page giving advice on how
> to get help, and someone forwarded me a link
> to http://workaround.org/getting-help-on-irc.
> Do you have any problems with me making a copy of this, and adapting it
> to a more channel specific reference? I'd normally expect this sort of
> page on a copy-left wiki or such sort, but noticed it was marked as
> copyright.
Thanks for asking. Feel free to use that page wherever you want and
change it in the way you like. Of course I always appreciate a backlink. :)
The reason everything on workaround.org is copyrighted is that some
shameless authors just took significant amounts of content from
workaround.org, published them only very slightly changed under their
names and earned money with putting ads on the web sites. I'm not making
money with workaround.org but I find it completely unfair if the work I
do for free is abused by others to earn money with it (even if it's
little money).
I'm not a lawyer but perhaps I can find a better license to avoid
abuse/theft.
Have a nice weekend…
Christoph
--
A distributed system is one in which I cannot get something done
because a machine I've never heard of is down. (Leslie Lamport)
