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Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors.

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From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Date 2013-11-04 01:49 +0100
Subject Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors.
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
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Cezary Tomczyk wrote:

> 2013-11-02 19:48, Dr J R Stockton wrote:
> [...]
>> The FAQ is not yours, so you cannot give that permission.

ACK.
 
> Who's the rights to FAQ?

Due to lack of an exhaustive list of contributors, everybody and nobody at 
the same time.  And as we have discussed before, that is a/the problem here. 
Contrary to common misconception, the subscribers or contributors of a 
newsgroup are _not_ a legal entity simply because neither is well-defined.

A reasonable way to resolve this without a license is to assume that the 
parts contributed by a person continue to belong to them even after 
publication.  He who maintains such a FAQ, then, is merely the keeper of the 
intellectual property thus made publicly available; he keeps it, updates it, 
and improves it so that his peers can continue to benefit from it.

There are better ways to resolve this that I am going to investigate, and 
will implement for the FAQ for comp.lang.javascript if and when I am sure 
that they cannot and will not be abused in order to steal intellectual 
property, or, in general, to use it only for one's own benefit.

-- 
PointedEars, IANAL

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  Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 04:42 -0700
    Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-21 15:50 +0100
      Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-21 10:01 -0700
        Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-22 20:04 +0100
        Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-24 14:31 +0100
          Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 15:08 -0700
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              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 14:41 -0700
  Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-20 17:37 +0100
    Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 21:13 -0700
      Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Adam Silver <adambsilver@gmail.com> - 2013-10-21 07:49 -0700
        Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-21 09:03 -0700
          Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Adam Silver <adambsilver@gmail.com> - 2013-10-22 07:06 -0700
            Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-22 10:10 -0700
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              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-29 09:22 -0700
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                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-29 19:41 -0700
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                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 13:30 -0700
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                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-31 23:21 +0100
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                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-31 23:50 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-02 18:48 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2013-11-03 21:05 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-04 01:49 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-05 19:26 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-06 01:12 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-07 16:53 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-08 02:02 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-09 18:43 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Mike Duffy <md_002@videotron.ca> - 2013-11-06 00:22 -0500
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2013-11-06 22:24 +0100
              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-30 18:13 +0000
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              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-31 07:12 +0100
              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 16:57 -0700
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                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-11-01 17:27 +0000
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                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-11-02 02:49 +0000
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