For much freely available published material,--especially images--publishers will be much more ready to permit access to the version on their own web site than to permit copying it onto ours. We should not shut ourselves out from this material. Perhaps what we should ask for is an irrevocable license to link, and a promise that the the material will be available permanently in some repository.
But I do not think we need the long-term mirrored archival backup that would be wanted for a scholarly journal. The very nature of a wiki project makes it impermanent.
On 10/17/06, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
"Roger Luethi" wrote:
The Landsat images they use are in the public domain, but I don't know
if
there's a place that offers them for bulk download.
If there's not, a WMF place would be a good place to start with it.
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