Tom, this looks like a great way to protect this info. I'll see if I could set this up. I would be willing to relenquish control to someone else that wanted to "own" the dealer list. The amcyclopedia folks have a copy and might want to ??? (Matt and Farna iirc http://www.amcyclopedia.org). Though removing it from my webspace isn't the best because there are several active websites linking to it. Steven Clark >> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:53:53 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [AMC-List] Copyright/copyleft/GNU license? (pertaining to AMC info files) To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611280948270.6716@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I was thinking first of the Creative Commons licenses. They have an interactive website that lets you customize legal copyright boilerplate to achieve various ends. As an example, I assume Steve would like to retain copyright control over the work (note) but allow others to modify/add to it, and to prevent commercial resale of the entire work without his permission. JUST AN EXAMPLE. There are also the various GNU licenses, but CC is easier to use for this. It came up with this sample: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ (Crappy summary here) Creative Commons Deed Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 You are free: * to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work * to make derivative works Under the following conditions: * by Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. * Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. * For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. * Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (LINK TO the full license). Disclaimer LINK TO disclaimer I used this site to create it: http://creativecommons.org/text/publish-website This is the home page: http://creativecommons.org ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited _______________________________________________ AMC-List mailing list AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list or go to http://www.amc-list.com