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authorAndrew Yu <andrew@andrewyu.org>2022-08-09 14:54:03 +0800
committerAndrew Yu <andrew@andrewyu.org>2022-08-09 14:54:03 +0800
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copyright, don't ask to ask
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diff --git a/article/copyright.html b/article/copyright.html
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<title>Copyright: It's okay</title>
+		<link rel="stylesheet" href="/plain.css" />
+		<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
+		<meta charset="utf-8" />
+	</head>
+	<body class="indent">
+		<h1>Copyright: It's okay</h1>
+		<p>
+		Copyright law isn't as broken as some think.
+		</p>
+
+		<p>
+		Modern copyright law allows for things like nonfree software that don't respect privacy and other freedoms.  But as long as it conforms to the license agreement that users thereof agree to, it's the users' responsibility to read the license agreement carefully and to agree to or decline it based on what they've read.  We Free Software developers <em><strong>grant</strong> the users the four freedoms</em>, others can choose to do otherwise.
+		</p>
+
+		<p>
+		Information unlike physical items can be copied with minimal cost, especially in the case of digital information, and thus the traditional private property argument of ``this is theft and the author loses stuff'' doesn't really apply.  However, information/data that an author creates shall be under the control of the author, it's ultimately what they create and is their private information.  The authors, not anyone else, should control how their information goes.  (Transferring this control to another entity is ultimately using their control to share or give away the same control, so that's no different.)
+		</p>
+
+		<p>
+		There are some jurisdictions that don't allow publishing works into the public domain.  I believe that this needs improvement, as I don't see a reason to force an author to control the distribution of their work when the author themselves don't want to.  For instance, <a href="/#footer">this Website is, when possible, in the public domain</a>, but in juristictions like Germany where that's not possible, an alternative permissive license is used.
+		</p>
+
+		<div id="footer">
+			<hr />
+			<p><a href="/">Andrew Yu's Website</a></p>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
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--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@
 			<li><a href="https://git.andrewyu.org">Git repositories</a></li>
 			<li><a href="https://fcm.andrewyu.org">Free Computing Movement</a></li>
 			<li><a href="https://learn.tuxiversity.org">The Tuxiversity Project</a></li>
-			<li><a href="https://host.andrewyu.org">Server guides (WIP)</a></li>
+			<!--li><a href="https://host.andrewyu.org">Server guides (WIP)</a></li-->
 			<li><a href="https://users.andrewyu.org">Other users</a></li>
+			<li><a href="/note/">Frequently Used Answers</a></li>
 			<li><a href="/buffer.html">(Don't click here)</a></li>
 		</ul>
 		<h2 id="me">About me</h2>
@@ -62,10 +63,11 @@
 		<ul>
 			<li><a href="https://fsf.org">The Free Software Foundation</a></li>
 			<li><a href="https://based.cooking">A simple clean receipe site</a></li>
+			<li><a href="https://landchad.net">Host your own services</a></li>
 		</ul>
 		<div id="footer">
 			<hr />
-			<p>Works hosted on this subdomain (<code>www.andrewyu.org</code>) served with the HTTP(S) protocol is in the public domain.  (In juristictions where it is impossible to publish into the public domain, the following applies: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this work, to deal in the work without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of this work, and to permit persons to whom the work is furnished to do so, with or without attribution.)</p>
+			<p>Works hosted on this subdomain (<code>www.andrewyu.org</code>) served with the HTTP(S) protocol is in the public domain.  (In juristictions where it is impossible to publish into the public domain, the following applies: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this work, to deal in the work without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of this work, and to permit persons to whom the work is furnished to do so.)</p>
 		</div>
 	</body>
 </html>
diff --git a/note/ask.html b/note/ask.html
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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<title>Don't ask to ask, just ask1</title>
+		<link rel="stylesheet" href="/plain.css" />
+		<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<h1>Don't ask to ask, just ask!</h1>
+		<p>Please don't send random emails and IRC messages saying ``Are you there?  I have a thing to ask you about...''.  Just ask the question.  If I'm online I might answer right away, if I'm not I'll answer you when I have time.  An ``Are you there?'' or ``Can I ask a question?'' question is just a waste of time and effort.</p>
+		<div id="footer">
+			<hr />
+			<p><a href="/">Andrew Yu's Website</a></p>
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>