----- Original Message ----- From: "Phoebus Dokos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ql-users] Perfection
. > Not entirely true :-) I submitted that idea to my graduating supervisor > professor at the uni and I was approved :-) That means that the ql-archive > will be a reality (that is if I want to graduate in December ;-) > For status now: I am finished with the database structure and most of the > search code (in PHP). > Glad to hear this, but I am not so interested in the technical side of the archiving, but in the practical. I am not sure that the people who raised this issue 2 months ago were all talking about the same thing. Pity there was no proper discussion of this at the time. Practical problems are for example: 1: How do you make a complete inventory of all the QL software, both PD and commercial, that has ever been published? This first stage could occupy a team for months on end. 2: How do you contact the copyright holders and/or authors when there is no up to date contact information? Specifically how would you solve the QLiberator problem. 3: How do you sort out complicated copyright questions? For example Freddy V gave permission for Perfection to become freeware, but not Spellchecker. Or think of the situation with the EasyPtr upgrade. 4: How do you cope with the anal retention problem, where an author refuses to release or modify code? (e.g. the Text87 problem.) If we are really serious about a software archive, then it should not be a one man effort, but a team looking at these problems. Best Wishes, Geoff _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
