Re: Copyright and Paper walls (was: Rollback in Postgres)

At 11:59 AM 7/12/2008, pgsql-sql-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org wrote:
>Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:20:37 +0100
>From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
>To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
>Cc: Lewis Cunningham <lewisc(at)rocketmail(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe
><scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, samantha mahindrakar
><sam(dot)mahindrakar(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
>Subject: Re: Rollback in Postgres
>Message-ID: <1215854437(dot)4051(dot)1723(dot)camel(at)ebony(dot)2ndQuadrant>
>
>On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 09:40 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Simon Riggs
> <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Please don't put links to copyrighted material on our lists.
> >
> > That's an odd thing to say, given that virtually every link on our
> > lists probably points to material copyrighted in some way.
>
>Prudence is all I ask for. We don't need to provide additional
>advertising for others, nor do we wish to embroil ourselves in
>accusations over copyright violations.

I don't want to pile more wood on the fire, but I think I can see both
sides to this. I believe this is not so much copyright violation
concern, but if the Pg team releases some cool feature relating to
rollbacks down-the-road that is vaguely similar to Oracle's system,
reducing the amount of discussion about Oracle's features on this list
would reduce Oracle's ability to claim that the feature was a direct
appropriation.

That said (and IANAL), I think posting links to for-profit and/or
copyrighted websites is really important in general for the list.
There's a lot of good information out there and I think it's not so
great if this list were to limit itself only to public domain and open
copyright documentation for consideration.

Just two more cents from the peanut gallery on a Saturday afternoon,

Steve