From SPT@waikato.ac.nz Tue Feb 6 14:50:29 1996
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 08:50:01 +1300
From: Simon Travaglia
Subject: Re: BOFH copyright question
To: jimcat@panix.com
> Just recently, I was reading the bofh.* newsgroups on Usenet, and I was 
> inspired to write and post a BOFH story of my own, inspired by my memories
> of my own days in operations. It's pretty different in tone from yours, 
> but I used the BOFH name a few times in it. I figure that posting it to
> Usenet is pretty harmless, but since you seem to actually be getting paid
> to write BOFH stuff for some publishers, I was wondering if there would be 
> any copyright violations if I were to put my story on the Web.

Well, the copyright thing is all a bit sticky so I prefer to keep clear
of it.   I have no objections per se, but there are various rights that
the places I write for might want to exercise at times.

Basic rule of thumb - do what you like until someone tells you not to -
It doesn't worry me personally as long as you make sure to mention that
the author of yours was you!

			- Simon

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