Fwd: Re: [LINK] Plagiarize and be pilloried

[Roger Clarke]

>From: hartr@interweft.com.au
>I have been asked by quite a few people if I will be releasing these
>docs under the GPL.
>The answer to that is no, because documents are not like software. ...

Further to Robert's excellent rendition, I'm in a similar position.

I put a Copyright Notice on (almost) everything on my sites.

In effect, I assert my rights, *but* grant a licence automatically 
for not-for-profit use, *provided that* a specified set of conditions 
is satisfied.

Many people overlook it.  Some ignore it.  But a moderate number each 
year contact me to get a clarification or negotiate a licence.

The Notice is at:
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/CNotice.html

If you like it, and want to use it, you'll see that I carefully did 
*not* assert copyright in the contents of the Copyright Notice 
itself, but instead permitted it to pass into the public domain.

Now:  I wonder if I should have made the Copyright Notice subject to 
an 'open content' copyright licence ...

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