[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

> How do people feel about allowing posts in -cafe to be placed on the
> wiki, without extensive prior negotiation? What copyright do -cafe@
> posts have?
> 

Currently, snagging the whole post for non-archive purposes isn't 
necessarily legit.

> If there was a rough consensus that this is ok, we could probably get a
> lot more material directly on the wiki, since I for one would act first,
> putting some interesting Clause Reinke posts there semi-verbatim, rather
> than pondering whether to write an email to the author to seek
> permission, or cojole them into doing it.
> 

General "is it okay if I put your interesting stuff up?" permission works.

So does linking to existing archives.

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