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Cc: NLS Restoration Technical Discussion <nls-technical@chm.cim3.net>
From: Jonathan Cheyer <jonathan@cheyer.biz>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:03:39 -0800
Message-id: <43FB47EB.8030603@cheyer.biz>
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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