Ok, let me suggest another compromise. It doesn't make much sense to
move things, because no one will ever take the time to move it. (01)
I was originally hoping to avoid this, especially since the goal has
been to complete the legal work as quickly as possible and make
everything open by now. Let me suggest that we draw a line between the
public and closed area in a more fine-grained manner. (02)
1)
Documentation, writings, and source code that is newly created and is
not intended, per se, to explain or detail historically related
information, be placed in the hyperscope-dev wiki and filespace in a
publicly available area (no passwords). (03)
2)
Documentation and writings that are newly written but historical in
nature be placed under the NLS Restoration wiki, in a publicly available
area (no passwords). (04)
3)
Original documentation, and original source code, which are either
questionably copywritten, or known to be copywritten, by a) an
individual that we can't locate or have obtained approval from yet, or
b) one or more corporations that we haven't obtained approval from yet,
gets placed in a closed, password-protected area for the time being. We
make the commitment that at some point in the future, one of the
following things will occur (possibly either in bulk, or on a
case-by-case basis for each document): (05)
* We locate the copyright owner and ask for approval to make available
to the general public. They accept our request. The document stays on
the NLS Restoration site and moves to a location available the general
public. Copies are allowed to be made, and subsequent copies (if
desired) can be stored anywhere. (06)
* We locate the copyright owner and ask for approval to make available
to the general public. They deny our request. The document remains
unavailable to the general public. (07)
* Despite continued search for the copyright owner, we are unable to
locate the copyright owner (or in the corporate case, we are unable to
determine who the copyright owner even is). The CHM believes it to be a
true orphan work. A decision of whether it should be make public (and
risk the chance of future prosecution) or kept private (and comply with
the current law) can be made on a case-by-case basis. (08)
Jonathan (09)
Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> If the NLS Restoration Project Wiki were public, I'd be in favor of
> this. However, I don't want to be putting valuable technical
> information behind a password until those issues are resolved,
> especially given that there is no legal requirement to do so.
>
> How about if we use the Hyperscope Wiki for now? When the legal
> issues are resolved, I'd be happy to help move the relevant pages over
> to the NLS Restoration site.
>
> -Eugene
> (010)
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