Dear Apertiumers: I have removed the copy in my temporary website. It was placed there but I was not aware that Google was crawling that directory (I thought it was not).
This is serious, as I am related to the journal (book review editor, member of the editorial board). By (inadvertently) placing that copy in the open, in Jim's words, I might have also "demonstrated that I lack either knowledge of, or respect for copyright" and therefore, this "casts a shadow over my contributions". I should therefore be thrown into the same sack as the contributors that candidly found a link to the paper and shared it to help other people, as I am as responsible as them, or even more, for that fault. Also, it looks like Jim is going ahead and publicly taking important decisions on behalf of the PMC without asking the PMC, or not even the president of the PMC, who, by the way, it is supposed to be me. Under these circumstances, namely (1) a rather serious copyright blunder and (2) an overtly challenged position as president, I can only *resign and call for a new election*, and I *officially do this by means of this message to the list*. According to our by-laws, "The Assembly of Committers will elect a new Project Management Committee", so therefore we need to renew the whole PMC, apparently. It would be better to just replace me, but I don't see how. We need to put together an Election Board of 3 committers (with one substitute each) will run the election. We will provide the Election Board with all the information needed to run the election (census, etc.). I apologize for all the inconvenience caused. Best regards, Mikel 2014-08-18 8:46 GMT+02:00, Tino Didriksen <[email protected]>: > On 18 August 2014 01:10, Jim O'Regan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> First of all, don't ever send a link to a copy of anything that's >> normally behind a paywall to a public list, ever. > > > Given that the link points to Mikel L. Forcada's own website and is the > first link on Google for the search phrase "Apertium: a free/open-source > platform for rule-based machine translation", then one can only reasonably > conclude the public PDF is sanctioned. > > The 2nd Google hit is to a more official looking > http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10590-011-9090-0 that also > gives the entire document for free. So, Springer themselves says it's > public. > > There is no paywall. > > -- Tino Didriksen > -- Mikel L. Forcada E-mail: [email protected] Departament de Llenguatges Phone: +34-96-590-9776 i Sistemes Informàtics also +34-96-590-3772. UNIVERSITAT D'ALACANT Fax: +34-96-590-9326, -3464 E-03071 ALACANT, Spain. URL: http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
