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[John Abreau]

On Tue, May 8, 2007 8:03 am, Paul Matthews said:

>
> I don't think i've really thought that much about that stuff, i've just
> posted it for everyone to use, if you want to post something i've created
> on your website then I guess thats cool, but it'd be nice if you gave me
> some credit and a link back to OpenSourceHowTo.Org as for what is
> submitted by others, they can edit it once it's been submit, but so can I,
> so if there is something there I don't like, I can remove it. But it's
> basically still there post. Much like on any website i'd Imagen.
>
> Is there something you want to ask if you can do? or some reason you were
> asked that?


Leaving things in an ambiguous state like that tends to make people
nervous, given recent litigius nastiness on the part of big copyright/
patent/trademark owners lately.

If you just want to share your writings with the world, I'd recommend
picking a Creative Commons license to clarify things. See

    http://creativecommons.org/license/

to help define the type of license you prefer.


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