[TAG] Talkback:128/saha.html (A case of copyright violation / plagiarism ?)

[Thomas Adam]

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On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:28:20 +0530 Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose at gnu.org>
wrote:

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> On Saturday 07 October 2006 10:08 PM, Thomas Adam cobbled together
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> > It won't bring us a bad name per se.  All we can do is mention as an
> > addendum in next month's LG the fact that this has happened.
> > "Fixing" any thing retroactively is not an option, since the
> > mirrors of LG will already have synched, and many don't resynch
> > their entire base -- they just get the latest copy of the release.
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> True. I my opinion that would be a very practical step. An addendum
> and may be an explicit `go-ahead' from the original author will do
> everybody good.
> In any case, thanks a lot Thomas. Linux Gazette simply rocks :)

In fact, can we have something like this in the author FAQ please?  

Q: "What happens if I spot a mistake in my article sometime after
publication"

A: It depends upon the type of "mistake" noted.  Because of the way the
Linux Gazette operates its mirror service (and we do have a lot of
mirrors) it's not possible to ensure that any mirror services will
receive the changes.  At best, you can hope that the correction happens
"at source" on linuxgazette.net .  Be aware though that in the majority
of cases, any follow-up information with regards to your article will
likely appear in the next issue of LG.

Mangle as you see fit.  I realise there's already a note about forking
in the FAQ, but the above has been something we've been seeing a lot of
recently, and I just thought having it in a location respective authors
are meant to read would be a good idea.  :)

-- Thomas Adam

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