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prase comments on Licensing discussion for LessWrong Posts - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Rick_from_Castify 24 December 2012 10:00AM

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Comment author: prase 29 December 2012 02:12:18AM *  1 point [-]

That's unfortunate.

However in practice the copyright is rarely, if ever, enforced for ordinary blog posts written by a pseudonymous author. If hypothetically somebody for whatever reasons violate the copyright, it would be technically illegal, but the copyright violator could be sure that nothing happens because I have no incentives to sue anyone. If, on the other hand, my text were part of some company's business plan, the incentives to sue violators would exist. Therefore the present situation is preferable to me.

But anyway, if it can be done this way, I hereby declare that all my past, present and future writing on LW are in public domain.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 29 December 2012 02:06:27PM *  1 point [-]

There is a very knowledgeable man named Mark S. Miller who puts, "Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain," at the bottom of his posts. He's been doing it since 2002.

(He only posts on mailing lists, though, AFAICT, where of course it is accepted practice for static text to appear at the bottom of posts.)