Re: Stealing Free Articles and Auctioning It

[Volker Tanger <vtlists () wyae de>]

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:
> > > I bought a copy, then used the techniques and fornd
> > > your own paper on:
> > >  www.infosecwriters.com/text_resources/
> > > doc/Demystifying_Google_Hacks.doc
>
> 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".

No, the author is listed and named. As he did not explicitly put it
under a free license even downloading the text from the website is
technically in a juristic gray area - best case. Reselling without a
proper contract (e.g. commercial or free license) simply is illegal. 

Short: No (free) license = no download, no publishing, no reselling.
At least not until the author is dead for more than 75 years...

Bye

Volker

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