On 5/4/20 11:40 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 1:38 PM Reuben Staley via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
Thanks to PSS for eir foresight, and pre-thanks to everyone that does
their part in preservation efforts.
I have copies of the uncompressed versions of everything linked to in
Zefram's archive. I wonder if we should upload the contents of any
historical records we find to github, license permitting, as another
layer of backup.
I think that this raises licensing and privacy concerns, but I do think
that we should think about how this could best be done respectfully.
If we can get ahold of the people who compiled the archives and attain
permission from them to redistribute on another platform, that should
deal with privacy and licensing concerns.
Of course, I'm not so naïve as to think we can contact players who
haven't been active for 20 years with email addresses that date back to
that time, but I think at least a few of them could be tracked down.
And even if the person revokes permission in the future, the advanced
visability we would gain from having them on a more public platform for
at least a few months would ensure more copies redistributed among
others' computers.
--
Trigon, Speaker of Agora
