[Rq-rules] Rules recipe database

[Peter Brink]

Styopa skrev:
> Anyone know if the RQ-Tekumel rules are available as a *.doc file?
> Unfortunately, I only can find them in a PDF, and whilst one can easily
> convert PDFs to txt, it obviously destroys formatting and tables.
> 
> Thought of that in context of importing it - I wonder if Sandy is easily
> reachable and if he'd mind.  Bringing to mind another question: yes, there
> are countless orphaned RQ sites out there, would one have to necessarily 
> try to reach the owner before posting their stuff, or is it considered public
> domain (with attribution, of course)?  What if the owner is unreachable?
> 

Those sites are *not* PD. The strict and careful approach is to get the 
authors permission. If that's not possible one can always save the site 
and use it for personal use, and continue to try and get a permission to 
post the stuff, but without such a permission it cannot be re-published. 
One could of course take a more daring approach and assume that people 
that has published stuff on the net intended it to be available and 
therefore wouldn't mind if it's safeguarded for future use. I would 
prefer that people only post stuff they have permission to post.

/Peter Brink