Re: possible copyright infringement against

On Saturday 20 January 2007 16:09, Robert Bernier wrote:
> On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:59, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > I assume our documentation and all our postings are BSD-licensed too.
> > >
> > > Ah, I understand where you're going. Not necesarily, I'm refering to
> > > articles that have been posted on websites for profit. The website I
> > > speak of datamines as many copyrighted articles it can find off the
> > > internet and not just reference documentation. Dru's articles, for
> > > instance, have definitely not been BSD licensed and O'Reilly certaintly
> > > doesn't do that i.e. somebody is making money from other people's work.
> > >
> > > It's like I printed a few thousand copies of your PostgreSQL book (is
> > > it BSD licensed?)  and kept the profits for myself without giving you
> > > any royalties?
> >

No, it's more like you kept small portions of each chapter on a website with
links to the book and then charged people to search your site.

> > True, but this isn't a community issue because the community resources
> > are BSD licensed.
>
> I disagree. If individuals are being attacked then what's the point of a
> community?

O'Rielly is aware of this website and hasn't done anything in at least a year;
if they don't feel it is worth persuing, I don't think we should spend much
effort on it.

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Robert Treat
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