That's such a problem.  It would be great to have a one-stop source for
everything and yet the permission issue is always there getting in the way.  I
only share anything I have to begin with on the notion it might dissolve into
oblivion (hopefully the opposite) without care of whether anything's linked back
to me at all or not.  But I can understand the good reasoning about that not
being universally accepted policy since how would a person ever know if
something is "patented" to use a descriptive word for it.  Well, then again
that's up to the person putting something out in the first place.  If explicitly
"copyrighted" it should probably be treated as such.  Where I get confused is
when people drop stuff out here and there that doesn't even have a name
associated with it much less a email address or (c) in it somewhere.
Based on that alone I'd say you could gather up everything you can find and
because if something does have any identifying stamps put in then it should be
perfectly all right to get and redistribute (it carries identification anyhow).
The only stop would be if the point of origin covers all content as copyrighted
or even non-distributable (huh?).  Rather, non-RE-distributable...
I believe it's a confusing mess all to do with what is considered allowable,
said or unsaid.
The point being, do people intend their uploads to become downloads.  Quite a
simple solution until the objects in question are meant to be downloaded from
specific places only.  This is going to be the main factor.

Bob

"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:38e1133f@news.povray.org...
| On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 23:03:58 +0300, Peter Popov wrote:
| >On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:25:40 +0200, Zeger Knaepen
| ><ZEG### [at] studentkuleuvenacbe> wrote:
| >
| >>Is it OK for everybody that I just take all the macros and INC-files I
| >>can find (from your pages, from this newsgroup, ...) and put them on
| >>my site (of course giving the creator the credits) to make one large
| >>(enormous might be a better word) collection?  Or does someone
| >>disagree with this?
| >
| >I hope the rest of the TAG members won't get mad at me for disclosing
| >that a similar project has been discussed among us as a possible to-do
| >in the future. If you could do our job, that would be great :)
|
| Doesn't this run afoul of copyright?  Just saying "speak up if you have
| a problem with this" isn't good enough, as those who posted the macros
| in question may no longer be active here.  I think you'll have to contact
| each and every macro author to get permission.
|
| FWIW, Zeger, any include files or macros I've posted here are free for
| the taking; just don't file off the serial numbers and try to pass them
| off as your own (not that I think you would.)
|
| --
| These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
| The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
| My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html

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