Archives are public, so, IMHO, the list is.
Vito
2017-11-24 11:11 GMT+01:00 mathieu stumpf guntz <
psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org>gt;:
Saluton ĉiuj,
Le 23/11/2017 à 20:54, Emeric Vallespi a écrit :
I think it was important to re-explain all those
points so that the
community, which is - again - unnecessarily taken as witness, is not
deceived by a scenario built from scratch.
Again, to discredit the movement by such erroneous but public accusations
still shows that only personal interests and vainness matter in this
conflict with some people.
I seize the opportunity to ask: what is the legal status of the list? Is
it
considered public?
I mean, it's easy to subscribe for anyone, but you still have to
subscribe. And as far as I know, accessing archives require to login. Now
there are other website which make crawled archives publicly accessible,
but just because some do that doesn't mean it's legal.
Also I'm not aware of any license regarding posted emails, so plain
copyright probably apply, minus any exception related to epistolary
material that might exist.
It might be interesting to make any post to our mailing list a free
licensed material. I've been thinking about that as I had the idea to
extensively analyse the wikidata-l mailling list and publish a side by side
statements and extracted keywords elements, but from a legal point of view
it is probably not feasible. That might be circumvented with links, or
providing a software which generate the expected table from provided
references, but anyway it's less practical than a straight published table.
Having this material published under a free license would make it far more
useful in any kind of study with such an extensive goal in its publication.
Now, switching to a free license would not make the change retroactive,
but it would already cover new material. Also it should be possible to
contact most posters through their email and ask permission to release
their previous publications under one or more free licenses and change
archive metadata accordingly.
Legale,
mathieu
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