From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:37:33 -0700
Of course you would score a major coup for the project by getting the copyright holder (the Royal Navy if I recall) to allow us to use their text under terms of the GNU FDL.
I'm working on letters to various government officials pointing out that since the US government is required by law to publish in the public domain, its publications are used worldwide. If other governments, such as Canada, adopted a similiar practice, there would be more diversity in public domain information to choose from, and projects like ours would be able balance American perspective with material from other countries.
I encourage other Canadians (and all citizens of countries without that lovely American law, for that matter) to apply a little pressure to your government officials. A few well-placed letters on issues that aren't in the public eye really can make a difference.
- Stephen G. ------- Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia http://www.wikipedia.org