Al said: Will it contain only pre-release text files, or all working files associated with a given project (page scans, illustrations, text, HTML, etc, etc)?
If the latter, what's to stop someone from taking those files, getting their
own clearance, and submitting them to PG as their own work? Or is DP going to consider that they're, in effect, abandoned projects, and up for grabs?
I actually hope the files are made available for others to finish. If the backlog is deep enough at DP as to warrant the creation of the pre-release area, then it would actually relieve their burden if individuals adopted some of the projects. In any case, I sincerely doubt there would be a mass wave of people grabbing up projects. If someone does finish one of these projects, I assume an attribution to DP would be included in the header to credit the work that they have done. To me, the issues of 'ownership' and 'credit' are secondary to what I believe is the main goal of getting finished works into PG so that people can read them. Carel