On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 10:16:19AM +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
| On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 22:12, dman wrote:
| > It's neat to see how when you share something it can come back even
| > better. Those comments and some of the specific config options were
| > part of what I came up with and published at
| > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/. Nigel then improved it and
| > sent it back to the list. The docs have just been updated. (in case
| > you're wondering how I can talk about the history of the comments in
| > Nigel's config :-)).
|
| Absolutely - if it looks like I've been passing that config off as all
| my own work then I have done dman a disservice.
I don't think you've done me a disservice at all. You enabled me to
improve my configuration :-).
| You will find that a
| lot of the things here is incremental work on top of the work of others
| - call it plagerism (except there is normally credit given although its
| hard to credit all the places that good ideas come from that are
| subsequently included into things), or good open source practice or
| something else.
Is it possible to plagerize a non-copyrighted work? (mostly a
hypothetical question) I certianly never copyrighted my
configuration; I provided it for all to do with as they see fit :-).
| Or look at the first line of the Introduction in the exim documentation
| (since the very first versions as I remember):-
|
| If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
| (Isaac Newton)
-D
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If you hold to [Jesus'] teaching, you are really [Jesus'] disciples.
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
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