question about mailing lists license ,

[Steve]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:11:54 -0000, Nifty Ubuntu  
<niftyubuntu at niftyegg.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:44 AM, a dehqan <dehqan65 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In The Name Of God The compassionate merciful
>>
>> Good day everyone ;
>> Is it against to a mailing list license if someone allows that his/her
>> notes/answers to be copied into a non-free book ?
>>
>> Regards dehqan
>
> The individual posts belong to the original author.  As a minimum
> you must acknowledge this and give them credit.  No different than
> a bibliography and citation list in a book or university paper.
>
> A collection that edits, organizes, indexes and clearly adds value is a  
> work
> that need not be free.  As long as you understand what plagiarism is
> and do not plagiarize the list you are likely OK.
>
> If you make money from the collected work of something like Ubuntu
> it behooves you to give back in fair measure some value to the project.
>
> You should read these pages:
>    http://www.ubuntu.com/legal
> And
>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu
> And
>    http://www.ubuntu.com/community/donations
> And
>    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
>
Perhaps we should use the WTFP License http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ for our  
posts :-)

-- 
Steve