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Requesting DUBeat to Put Content Under Free License and Add RSS Feed

खूबसूरतインサーン Tue 10 Feb 2026 7:19AM Public Seen by 54

Hey, I am writing an email to DUBeat for changing their content license and adding RSS feeds.

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Hello,

I have been reading news articles on your website since my first year and today I noticed some things while browsing the posts.

(1) I saw "Copyright All rights reserved" in the footer. This is problematic since as a student led newspaper I would have hoped that the content would be under a copyleft license since it isn't supposed to be commercialised and copyleft licenses are more conducive to research. A switch to a Creative Commons license would be lovely:
https://creativecommons.org

(2) There are no RSS feeds. An RSS feed is an XML file which helps user to read news right from a RSS reader. It won't impose much constraint on your servers since it's just a static page.

I hope you fix these issues. If you need help with these issues then feel free to reply back.

Thanks

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I was wondering if it would be alright to pen it under FSCI name?

NE

Nandakumar Edamana Wed 11 Feb 2026 5:10AM

Some corrections regarding Point 1:

  • "Copyright All rights reserved" alone doesn't mean something is proprietary (I agree that most of the time it does). You first need to reserve all rights in order to make something free (as in freedom), except for things in the public domain.

  • Not all Creative Commons licenses are copyleft. Some are proprietary, some are copyleft, and some are permissive.