Copyright of TEI Guidelines (was Re: TEI Guidelines for palm devices)

[Tomaz Erjavec]

Wouldn't it be a good idea to make these rules public?

I am giving a course on encoding at the ESSLLI summer school; each
course can have a reader that is distributed to students, and it
seemed I could do far worse than include A Gentle Introduction and
TEIU5 in it. But hunting all over the TEI web site I could not find
one word on whether such copying is allowed or even encouraged, or
forbidden. 

So, I'd suggest a paragraph summarising what is said below to be added
to http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines2/
Or maybe a pointer to a page giving the full story?

Best,
Tomaz

<p>Syd Bauman writes:
 > > -- Does the council endorse this kind of republication of the
 > >    Guidelines? For everybody? For members only?
 > 
 > This is not a council decision, but a board decision, and they have
 > already decided -- for everybody. From my notes from the board meet-
 > ing in Progue:
 > 
 >   * Compiled forms (DTD, HTML; others like .lit and other schemas if
 >     we do them) will be freely distributed. May be re-distributed or
 >     re-published, although those doing so are encouraged to mirror
 >     our copy; at the very least to check for most recent version
 >     before distributing.
 > 
 >   * Reproduction of more than one chapter but less than the whole, or
 >     making any alterations requires explicit permission from TEI-C.
 > 
 >   * We encourage any and all dynamic derivatives to mirror the
 >     source. We'll even promote them in that case.
 > 
 > Note that the above items refer to *unaltered* derivatives of P4.
 > Translations, altered versions, and extracts > 1 chapter are a
 > different story.
 > 
 > Thus if you make the whole of P4 available you already have the
 > Board's blessing. The TEI-C would distinctly prefer it if you could
 > arrange for the website to create the OEB files dynamically (from
 > either the .p4x or the .html derivative, I presume), as that way when
 > corrections are made to P4 those getting your derived versino get the
 > updates automatically. If that's not feasible, though, at least check
 > for updates and re-create the OEB version frequently. (We -- well,
 > actually Lou gets the credit -- have already made several minor
 > changes since the big blue books came out.)
 > 
 > 
 > > -- Would this be better placed on the TEI website? (I have no
 > >    objections of putting it there)
 > 
 > Whether it be *on* the TEI website or *pointed to* by the TEI website
 > makes little difference to me. But one or the other.