Re: Archives policy

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Archives policy
Date: 2009-04-16 20:50:41
Message-ID: 20090416175006.G84471@hub.org
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> (and I don't think we're going to attempt to delete pornographic
>>> messages posted months ago -- if anything of the sort happens, action is
>>> going to be taken pretty hastily).
>
>> Agreed ... there isn't any reason why someone 'internally' doesn't notice
>> it from jus scanning the lists ...
>
> I think by far the most likely problem scenario is that someone claims
> to hold copyright on something-or-other in an old message and files a
> DMCA takedown notice against it. AFAICT the standard of proof in such
> cases is "guilty until proven innocent", so we'd probably have to cave
> rather than argue about it. How are the copyright laws in Canada these
> days?

All things considered, consider Canada the 53rd state ... (you guys have
52, right?)

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