From: Axel.Berger@Gmx.De   
      
   Timo Salmi wrote:   
   > some vague request to copy, translate and put the material up   
   > at one's own server.   
      
   Well, translating at least would have been added value and denying that   
   does not seem very reasonable to me.   
      
   > Besides the material STILL resides, freely readable, at a   
   > private server (at my cost).   
      
   This may be so, but the last twenty years have strongly taught (if such   
   teaching had even been necessary in the first place) the value of   
   keeping important information distributed in different repositories. Too   
   many resources have died for whatever reason and lots of valuable data   
   got lost that way.   
      
   To quote just one other example of copyrighted material: Britains BBC is   
   broadcasting many programs acquired from private recordings of sometimes   
   doubtful quality, because they got lost in their own archives. Most   
   antique texts have only survived as copies (not true, most are lost) and   
   in some cases only as short quotes in works disagreeing with them.   
      
   Copyright serves two purposes: The right of the author to be recognized   
   and acknowledged and his right to profit financially from it. The second   
   is not relevant in your case and the first would not be harmed through   
   distributed repositories.   
      
   But no doubt, the decision is yours to make and ours to grumblingly   
   accept.   
      
   Axel   
      
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