----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2004 1:17 pm Subject: [PGCanada] Introductions, etc.
And yes, Project Gutenberg is a totally separate entity. As a volunteer organization, PG in the United States simply could not deal with the legal complications that would be brought up in becoming a "multi-national".
I believe the only legal relationship is that PG of Canada has been granted the right to use the "Project Gutenberg" trademark.
I think that's correct as well. The other thing that would/should have to be done, would be to open up a relationship with Distributed Proofreaders to create a third DP site (in addition to PGDP and DP-EU). That's more technical than legal, as the (amazing) DP infrastructure is developed on a share-and-share-alike basis.
"Wallace" == Wallace J McLean <ag737@freenet.carleton.ca> writes:
Wallace> The other thing that would/should have to be done, would Wallace> be to open up a relationship with Distributed Wallace> Proofreaders to create a third DP site (in addition to Wallace> PGDP and DP-EU). That's more technical than legal, as the Wallace> (amazing) DP infrastructure is developed on a Wallace> share-and-share-alike basis. Does this have a technical motivation? (for example, avoid the complications of UTF-8 being life+50) Or just to have a companion to PG-CA? The effort to bring up a DP site is non negligeable, much more than overcoming the utf-8 barier; DP-EU still has space to grow, and will surely welcome new forces. For example, our waiting lists are empty, anything that you want to post is welcome. When DP-EU has grown, and canadian squirrels matured, detaching a canadian clone might be much easier. Currently, a division of efforts might create problems to both. Carlo
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