The FAQ as it currently stands has attributions with email addresses for many of the articles. I was proposing to loose the email addresses since many are probably now out of date, and they poses a slight spam risk for their owners (they are obfuscated in the code - which helps reduce the risk significantly). Anyone have any feelings on the matter?
FAQ and email addresses
Apr 28, 2009
14 Replies
I can't see that you're gaining anything by doing that. You need to retain details of the copyright ownerships in any case.
In message , Andrew Gabriel writes
Who has copyright on Andy Hall's contribution ?
Is it worth clarifying the position with his family ?
Having written the pressure washer FAQ, I get e-mails from people all over the world asking for information. I find this interesting and always try to help. I'd like that to continue.
Fair point...
perhaps just expunging the addresses that we know to be defunct is a better way to go?
Same here with actuators, even if its so long ago I don't remember
That sounds sensible.
Copyright ceeds to the estate of the deceased.
No dont bother them
Phil
His estate.
Can't see why, by the willful act of publishing the work in a public place presumably without any specific note from Andy about copyright the work is in the public domain.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember John Rumm saying something like:
Yes, they'd be much happier running free across the internet plains.
What's your name, Mary Fisher? (the last person to complain about that particular typo!)
I like that idea.
Adam
Not at all. Copyright exists when you create something, and plastering it or not with legalese doesn't change that. You have to explicitly say so in order to put things in the public domain.
Heartily agree with this though. Nobody's going to want to be quizzed by some copyright wonk, under the circumstances.
Pete
Amazingly, none of Andy's numerous contributions are actually in the FAQ!!!
How about gathering them up into an "Andy Hall of Fame" section in the Wiki? It would be a real shame if one day Google changed direction and they got lost. Its happened before... remember deja-vu, altavista.
Anyone up for starting it off with a list of good ones, with pointers into the Google archive?
Phil
Splendid idea Phil.
I recall some very detailed and useful postings on things like auxiliary heating circuits for workshops, flushing central heating systems, and a few others.
If someone wants to collect them together, I would be happy to format them for the FAQ (probably not as well suited to the wiki, since there is little justification for "fiddling" with them later...
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