I looked through some of the archives and saw that quite a bit of thought has been put into the technical issues of the website itself. Rather than reinvent the wheel can we just copy the entire Gutenberg html code and scripts and use that as a template? What is the copyright status of that? Once we have the site working, I'd say we go through every item in the Gutenberg database and add those items which are public domain according to Canadian law. Though I think I might start with "Gone with the Wind" :-). Concurrent to all this of course, we can working on getting all our legal ducks in a row. Comments would be appreciated.
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:42:14PM -0500, Darryl Moore wrote:
I looked through some of the archives and saw that quite a bit of thought has been put into the technical issues of the website itself.
Rather than reinvent the wheel can we just copy the entire Gutenberg html code and scripts and use that as a template? What is the copyright status of that?
Yes, you can copy anything. Email Marcello for help/info - I also have access to mostly everything. Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> But I think it's too complex to copy as a whole, and too integrated with the iBiblio server it rests on. More likely you'll want to start afresh, but liberally use the existing gutenberg.org code/infrastructure/database, etc. -- Greg
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