Copyright of stuff on this webserver

(and how to get hold of stuff I did which is not here)

Copyrights are dull but important. Generally I will let you copy stuff I hold copy rights over (as below, unless specified on the work itself).

Some of the content here does not belong to me, for example anything provided to me as part of Debian GNU/Linux. Obviously this page doesn't apply there.

Programs I write are, by default, owned by my employer. This is mostly just an inconvenience since Dave is happy to sign my copyright back to me on a per-project basis. The main effect is that my recent work is less accessible than it otherwise might be. If I had my time again I would refuse to sign to those terms, even though "they're very common in this business". 8-(
Web pages I write are mine. (Either that or I could get my employment contract declared null due to unfair terms? It's all hypothetical anyway...)
You may
- copy them for search & retrieval, comparison or archiving purposes^[1], provided you make no financial charge for doing so. In displaying the copy you may make alterations provided they are obviously external to my work.
- copy them for your personal use provided they are either not altered, or altered in such a way that another person will not think they are my original work.

Drop me a line if you need something which is mentioned here but not obviously available, for example the scripts I'm using to do the gnomework.

[1] To be honest, my main reason for writing this stupid page is for the benefit, or otherwise, of Alexa's archive and Google's cache. They're pretty cool toys, let's hope they stay that way!