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[ adding .general, .admin.general, follow-up to .admin.general ]
Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote:
> My point is that in case Lugnet is about to go off-line,
> somebody can't just make a copy of the site, put it up and
> keep all the content available. Having the content under a
> free license removes a possible failure point that often
> hits smaller LEGO fan sites, but also could hit a site like
> Lugnet.
Actually:
I've been worried about this for a very long time, ever since back when I
was worried that this fancy new Lugnet thing would kill RTL. [*] So, I've
asked Todd for access to mirror the newsgroup data, and to have all rights
automatically transfer under section 7ii of the ToU in the event of a
disaster.
And he didn't give me any trouble about it. :)
So there's at least that contingency plan in the works. If something Bad
were to happen, I'd plan to take the posts and release them under a
relatively open license. (In fact, this part might go in writing.)
[*] Which it arguably did. See this thread:
<http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=8265>
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Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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