On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 07:57:00PM +0200, Brian Foster wrote:
> yea, Colm, I am also tempted to, ah, ???plagiarise??? that.
>> since it is in a document you have copyrighted (and in
> fact _is_ essentially the copyright!), could you please
> clarify your position w.r.t. people liberally borrowing
> from that very copyright/disclaimer/whatever?
>> please note this e-mail is _not_ a post to ILUG, albeit
> that _may_ (yer decision) be an appropriate forum for a
> reply?
Absolutely, and since this is the 6th instance of someone asking me for
a license (you all know who you are!) I've put up something more
conrete on the web;
http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2005/05/17/copyright-your-cv/
As it says there;
"I'm granting a permanent free (as in beer) license to modify, copy,
distribute, display or make any use of the above license. If anyone has
a better license they can suggest, feel free to mail me!"
> p.s. another to add to yer horror stories about
> the recruitment agency fsckwits: yanking CVs
> from Google???'s cache to collect details.
> that one happened to me about two years ago! ;-(
> ( along with, at various times, all the usual
> ones like re-writing, sending to companies
> without my pemission and/or for unsuitable
> jobs, and so on... .)
Ouch!
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