Re: Stealing Free Articles and Auctioning It

[Wouter Clarie <wclarie () gmail com>]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:21:05 +0200, Maxim Vexler <hq4ever () gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:22:03 +0530, Debasis Mohanty
> <mail () hackingspirits com> wrote:
> > Thanks to the person who informed me that one of my article called
> > "De-Mystifying Google Hacks" is being sold at eBay without my knowledge
> > while the same article is available on my site and as well as many other
> > security sites free. Here is the link where that lame has put my article on
> > auction:
>
> Not to give legitimation to such egoistic repulsive behavior, BUT your
> work is released under the GPL/GFDL or a similar "Free Licence", isn't
> it ?
> In fact I wasn't able to find in the document text under what licence
> it's being published, from that one could conclude that it's "Public
> Domain" which is even less restrictive then "Free Licence".

If I'm not mistaken, if there is no license to be found, no-one except
the original author has any rights at all. Your logic would be very
strange. It is not because you publish something without mentioning
licensing terms, that the material is in the public domain.
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