As a publicly funded scholar and educator, I want to make my work available as widely as possible. Copyright is often used to restrict the movement of ideas; this inhibits peer review, collaboration, and scholarly debate. However, the careful use of copyright is not always evil. I encourage you to use copyright to facilitate the distribution of your ideas.
Visit the Free Software Foundation for excellent discussions of the consequences of restrictive copyrights and patents. Creative Commons provides licenses you can use to share and distribute your ideas in a similar fashion.
If you publish any material I wrote, please send me a brief description of the publication details. I encourage you to donate time or cash to the charity of your choice if something I wrote is profitable for you. If you don't have a favorite charity, support the education efforts or your local public broadcasting affiliates, or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Linking to this document or other documents in this directory is perfectly acceptable. (No need to ask permission. If I didn't want folks linking to my stuff, I wouldn't put it on the Web.) Please write me if something I wrote is useful to you, or if you find a mistake or problem.
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