[Mageia-dev] Fortune Cookies Collections Policy

Sun Jun 17 07:54:22 CEST 2012

nicolas vigier wrote:
+
+> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote:
+> 
+>> Hi all,
+>> 
+>> I would like to prepare Mageia packages for more UNIX fortune cookies'
+>> collections (see the fortune-mod program and
+>> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ ), but I'm wondering when it
+>> is acceptable to package them and when it wouldn't be, given that fortune
+>> files often contain texts and quotes from heterogeneous sources, and
+>> licensed under various licences (including "All-Rights-Reserved" ones).
+>> 
+>> For example, can I package the collection here -
+>> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ - which is by me and which its
+>> blanket licence is the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence
+>> (CC-by-sa), but which contains text by many authors and under many
+>> licences?
+> 
+> I think it is almost the same as wikiquote :
+> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Copyrights
+> 
+> Most countries have laws that allows publishing short quotes of
+> copyrighed work. So if done within limits, it should be ok.
+
+What most countries allow is not important.  What matters is the 
+law in the county (or countries) where you have a presence.  
+
+> Maybe we can use the same limits as wikiquote :
+> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Limits_on_quotations
+
+-- 
+blind Pete
+Sig goes here...  
+
+