Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.ripco.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "=?windows-1252?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=" <=?windows-1252?q?arne_vajh=f8j?=@1:261/38.remove-k2r-this> Subject: Re: Code To Pick A Date From A Calendar Message-ID: <5023FE36.56449.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-Comment-To: Mike Winter Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer X-FTN-AREA: COMP.LANG.JAVA.PROGRAMMER X-FTN-MSGID: 1:261/38 f9e6cb60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98] Lines: 94 Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:44:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.21.70.65 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1344537869 69.21.70.65 (Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:44:29 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:44:29 CDT Organization: tds.net Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:17500 To: Mike Winter From: "=?windows-1252?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=" <=?windows-1252?q?arne_vajh=f8j?=@1:261/38.remove-qhs-this> To: Mike Winter From: "=?windows-1252?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=" <=?windows-1252?q?arne_vajh=f8j?=@1:261/38.remove-p82-this> To: Mike Winter From: =?windows-1252?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= On 8/6/2012 8:07 PM, Mike Winter wrote: > On 07/08/2012 00:30, Arne Vajhoj wrote: > >> Obviously code posted here is copyrighted. >> >> The question is whether posting to usenet implicit >> provides a "permissible license". >> >> Web fora where users has to register can require an >> explicit accept. >> >> SO: >> >> You agree that all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network >> is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Exchange under the >> Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. You grant Stack >> Exchange the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, copy, >> cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and >> store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so in any medium >> now known or hereinafter developed (rContent License%) in order to >> provide the Services, even if such Subscriber Content has been >> contributed and subsequently removed by You. >> >> E-E: >> >> By registering with Experts Exchange and posting Your Content on the >> Site, you hereby: (i) grant Experts Exchange a non-exclusive, perpetual, >> irrevocable, unrestricted, transferable, fully sub-licensable, >> worldwide, royalty-free license to use, distribute, display, reproduce, >> perform, modify, adapt, publish, translate and create derivative works >> from Your Content in any form, media or technology, whether now-known or >> hereafter developed; >> >> I would argue that usenet posts via tradition, logic and >> similarity comes with an implicit license for free >> usage by anyone. > > If I'm not mistaken, those sorts of licenses are merely to permit sites > that retain user submissions to store that content and resend it others > in some form (usually forums) without infringing on copyright. It > doesn't automatically allow other users to use that content as it's the > site that is granted the license--the work isn't placed into the Public > Domain. > > Of course, these licenses do mean that such websites could, in > principle, take someones hard work and use it themselves even though the > original creator retains ownership. > > I would argue that the "to allow others" phrase in the Stack Exchange > terms is intended to refer only to third-parties that work with them to > provide or develop its services rather than others generally, but it's > ill-defined here and could extend to anyone SE deems applicable. Without any limitation mentioned I would expect that other could be literally anyone. Study of "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike" may provide more insight, but I am not on SO so I do not care much. Arne Arne Arne -+- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1 + Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) -+- Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24 -+- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1 + Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) -+- Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24 --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) --- Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24