full-disclosure - Stealing Free Articles and Auctioning It

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

From: hq4ever at gmail.com (Maxim Vexler)
Subject: Stealing Free Articles and Auctioning It

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:22:03 +0530, Debasis Mohanty
<mail@...kingspirits.com> wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> 
> While my efforts are always to contribute free knowledge to the community
> like many others, there exists many lames and craps who has mastered Ctrl-C
> and Ctrl-V and use this lame methods to copy paste other's work and sell it
> in their name.
> 
> Thanks to the person who informed me that one of my article called
> "De-Mystifying Google Hacks" is being sold at eBay without my knowledge
> while the same article is available on my site and as well as many other
> security sites free. Here is the link where that lame has put my article on
> auction:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5170644689&ssPageNam
> e=STRK:MEWN:IT
> 
> Below is the mail of the person who informed me:
> 
> > Hello !
> >
> >
> > Did you know that a guy in canada is selling your
> > paper on eBay for $2.45?
> >
> > I bought a copy, then used the techniques and fornd
> > your own paper on:
> >
> >  www.infosecwriters.com/text_resources/
> > doc/Demystifying_Google_Hacks.doc
> >
> >
> > if you like, he's probably still got a listing
> > there,,,,    let me know if i
> > can be of any help, ok?
> >
> >
> > T.P.O
> 
> The idea of posting this here is that to make everyone aware of this
> incident.
> 
> Regards,
> Debasis
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://www.secunia.com/
> 

Not to give legitimation to such egoistic repulsive behavior, BUT your
work is released under the GPL/GFDL or a similar "Free Licence", isn't
it ?
In fact I wasn't able to find in the document text under what licence
it's being published, from that one could conclude that it's "Public
Domain" which is even less restrictive then "Free Licence".

Looking at the strictly legal side of the story, "Free Licence" does
allow him to resale your work, depends of curse on the type of the
licence & if he follows it's other requirement's (like not deleting
the creator credits & such).

-- 
Cheers, 
Maxim Vexler (hq4ever).

Do u GNU ?