Re: Is sharing .mbox files of a public mailng list allowed?

On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:22 PM, "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kanghaol@oupeng.com> wrote:

> (2013/10/22 10:11), Ian Jacobs wrote:
>> My understanding is that the mbox source files are not public for a
>> reason. I have added Ted Guild if you have further questions.
> 
> The question is then "what's that reason" :)
> 
>> Please do not share the mbox source files publicly at this time. Thank you.
> 
> That's fine.
> 
> I'd like to know if creating .mbox files from my email client and
> sharing them is allowed then. Who holds the copyright to those mails by
> the way? "Intellectual Rights FAQ - W3C" doens't mention this as far as
> I can tell.

People who post to W3C lists give W3C permission to distribute the messages in our
archives. I am not aware that posters have also given permission to others to distribute
the messages.

I can ask our legal team for their views.


> I noticed that W3C holds the copyright of all contents on
> webplatforms.org. Does it not own all the mails sent to the public lists?

I am not in a position to speak about ownership, only about the permission to publish
messages per our mail policy.
 http://www.w3.org/Mail/

> If this needs broader discussions, I can foward this to public-w3process.

I think that list may be useful for discussion of policies, but that list may not provide
you answers to your current questions.

Ian

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Kenny
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