[geeks] Copyright questions

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chris Byrne wrote:

> There is no accepted law or practice on quoting something like a mailing
> list as far as I know.

Why not?  It's known to be in public circulation (via the archives), so
it's a published work.

> I'm not even sure who would "officially" own such a copyright.

The poster.

> Regardless of any copyright issue I thought it only polite to ask before
> doing so.

Yes, it is.

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