Who Owns This?
Early in the life of this site, I chose a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license for the material I posted here. Later, when I accepted a position working as an assistant professor at the nation’s oldest military academy, I released all material posted here into the public domain, wanting to align my professional and non-professional writing. (Any writing performed as a federal employee is in the public domain, owned by American taxpayers.) As I look at it now, that wasn’t the best decision: while various forms of online writing may open up professional opportunities (as blogging has done for me), those forms aren’t necessarily the same thing as professional writing, as Steve Krause has smartly observed. For that reason, I’ve decided to change things back to the way they were: any material posted by me on this site after today, January 20 2008, falls again under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Any material posted by me before January 20 2008 remains in the public domain.