Copyright protection against hijackers (Re: New Nginx documentation for beginners)

[Omer Zak]

After reviewing the "problematic" section in Steve Litt's copyright
statement, I'd urge Steve Litt to retain the "problematic" section.

While the threat it is protecting him (and all of us) against does not
seem to exist today, it might re-emerge in the future.

The section in question is not more problematic than the various
boobytrap provisions which RMS added to the GPL to prevent it from
being nullified in court.

In fact, the more Websites add such provisions to their copyrights, the
more difficult would it be for transmission and storage actors in the
Internet to claim copyright in the material passing through them.

--- Omer Zak



On Sat, 2019-06-15 at 02:17 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:03:34 +0300
> Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Steve,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:41 AM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.c
> > om>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I just put up several nginx documents helpful to those who don't
> > > yet
> > > have a complete knowledge of nginx. You can access them all from
> > > the
> > > following URL:
> > > 
> > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nginx/
> > > 
> > >  
> > 
> > thanks for sharing. However given the current copyrights laws I'd
> > rather not risk reading something that is under this:
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/cpyright.htm . 
> 
> What's your specific hesitation with
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/cpyright.htm ? Would it eliminate that
> hesitation if all verbiage below "Transmission Through Certain
> Servers
> and Protocols is Prohibited" were eliminated?
> 
> Once upon a time there was a very good reason for that verbiage, but
> that was 18 years ago. I'll have to think about it, but I could
> probably eliminate "Transmission Through Certain Servers
> and Protocols is Prohibited" and everything below, at which time it
> would be a simple free-as-in-beer license.
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