I don't know if people are aware of copyleft (as opposed to copyright) but this is a really interesting concept for those of us who are transcribing, publishing books or designing websites. With Copyleft the essential requirements are that those parts of any document taken from Copylefted works will be (a) acknowledged and (b) also Copylefted (and not Copyrighted). Those who wish to make commercial use of Copylefted information are free to do so but in the knowledge that the Copylefted parts of their work may be freely copied and used under Copyleft provisos. If they wish they can Copyright other parts of their work. For those who are interested there is a recent article about Copyleft in New Scientist which is available at www.newscientist.com/hottopics/copyleft. (The article is itself covered by Copyleft). Best wishes Glenys www.bishopdale.demon.co.uk Web site for the Upper Dales Family History Group Seeking CUMPSTONs everywhere

In message <019c01c21d52$a4096c80$d246e4d4@336870j>, Glenys Marriott <glenys@bishopdale.demon.co.uk> writes >With Copyleft the essential requirements are that those parts of any >document taken from Copylefted works will be (a) > acknowledged and (b) also Copylefted (and not Copyrighted). Those who wish >to make commercial use of Copylefted information are free to do so but in >the knowledge that the Copylefted parts of their work may be freely copied > and used under Copyleft provisos. If they wish they can Copyright other >parts of their work. This is hardly a new concept. Most of the Linux software suite is published under the GNU General Public Licence and the documentation under the Free Documentation licence. The Preamble to the documentation licence actually uses the term "copyleft". In order to use this in a document you have to include the following: Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME, Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation Licence, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with the invariant sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST. A copy of the licence is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation Licence". I would be very wary of using any wording which, with the aid of a good lawyer, could enable a commercial distributor to use your work. Do not use any form of wording which may suggest, however indirectly, that you have relinquished any rights to your work. John -- John Rouse