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No problem, green imp. I'm truly not offended by questions regarding the longevity and insurance that the intent and purpose for IMSLP remains intact. Those questions should be there. To be clear, I wanted to point those who are interested to the public domain web site and wiki that I've been runnin...

Wikipedia actually does have a good description of not for profit and how it operates and functions as opposed to a for profit organization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization What seems to be the biggest detractor of projects such as IMSLP for being associated with for profit orga...

That's a good question, Peter. The reality would be that "Mr. Kevin" :wink: (ie. me, Kevin Rattai) would not be the owner. Rather, the corporation 4656416 Manitoba Ltd. (a holding company) would potentially (we haven't got to that part, yet) be the holding company for IMSLP. As it is for t...

We also host Howard Rheingold's former online community called Electric Minds and posted about this for discussion:

http://www.electricminds.org/venice/con ... f=16&top=9

Yes, send me an email with phone number and times you're available and we can talk more about this.

Cheers!

I found out about the "problem" via the print version of Information Week which pointed to the blog article:

http://informationweek.com/1160/blog_copyright.htm

Hi Kevin! I've also received your offer via e-mail, but I will respond here so that other people may chime in also. Basically, IMSLP is looking for someone willing to shoulder the legal burden that may come with IMSLP. I'm guessing that so far, the legal burden has simply been to seek council and r...

I happened upon the IMSLP web site and noticed the request looking for hosts. I've sent an email to the address and then wandered over here and decided to post the offer openly to the group, as well. I am a strong proponent of not just Open Source, but also of Public Domain as well and operate my ow...