question about mailing lists license ,

[Matt Brown]

Douglas Pollard wrote:
> Gilles Gravier wrote:
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>> Derek,
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>> Derek Broughton wrote:
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>>> a dehqan wrote:
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>>>> Is it against to a mailing list license if someone allows that his/her
>>>> notes/answers to be copied into a non-free book ?
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>>> It is a violation of international copyright law, if you publish it without 
>>> the author's permission.  I think most people here though are not averse to 
>>> you publishing their wisdom; they just don't want to go to the trouble of 
>>> writing down something, for you to publish, that you could have stolen just 
>>> as easily from Google.
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>> I agree with you. But you forget one element. It's important to
>> attribute the quote to whomever said it. If you are going to quote
>> somebody, you want their approval, and they will want their name mentionned.
>>
>> As you say, copyright laws... they apply.
>>
>> Gilles.
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> I also think you will make your book publisher very angry if you put in 
> something you do not have an absolute right to use.  They will have 
> printed books only to find out they will have to pull them off the 
> shelf.  IF this were to happen your credibility will be so damaged you 
> will never get any publisher to publish your work in the future. If you 
> are writing for profit,  you can afford to get a Lawyer's advice that 
> cost just gets added into the price of the book and the reader pays for 
> it.  Maybe a penny a book  or less.                                     
>                                                                      Doug
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>   

And while we are all very brilliant on this list and probably all 
captains of industry and very influential in international politics and 
the like, I don't know if a mailing list is the best place to get 
information for a book.
Using it as one source is probably fine, but I would hope that you would 
have more than one source of information and research. I would think 
that grabbing two or three people that seem to know what they are doing 
on this list and privately picking their brains might be better than 
just shooting out questions to the list and worrying if someone will let 
you use this and that.

Feel free to use that in your book...

-Matt