From: mortel@chose.cam.org (Stephane Lussier)
Newsgroups: alt.galactic-guide
Subject: Just Ideas & Stuff - part 4 of 4 : THE CHART
Distribution: world
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Date: 4 Sep 92 17:48:24 EST
Organization: J'en aurai une!  Un jour, j'en aurai une!!

(A properly formatted chart should pass by this group anytime now.  Blah, blah,
blah!)


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  The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Known (and Unknown) Galaxy's "legal" thing
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This "chart" protects the material submited by any Field Researcher of the
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Known (and Unknown) Galaxy and promotes some of the
staff's rights.  It is entirely independant from any computer program.


0.1: All published material may be freely distributed all over the known and
unknown universe as long as each field researcher is duly given credit
for his work and no profit has been made.

0.2: But here's how you can make profit out of the guide's material if you
Really want to succeed in life:

    0.2.1: You are on the guide's staff and want to publish a book or
    something including some of the guide's best material and, why
    not, someone else's article(s) without asking him/her permission,
    so to make money on his/her back.  You mention this to the other
    editors and they think that it isn't a bad idea at all, as long
    as they get a share of the cake.  If all the staff(1) agrees,
    the hell with rule 0.1!

    0.2.2: If you are an information distributor want to make the guide
    accessible to your customers at modest fees, you can submit
    a written query to a guide's editor on a pink sheet of paper
    and, if the staff likes you, you might get your commission.

0.3: Each field researcher is fully responsible for his/her own material.
The editors and the rest of guide's staff are officially a bunch of
irresponsible idiots.

0.4: The only exception to these rules being the use of new terms & idioms
that, once published, become public domain on the sole ground that
it would be very foolish to give credits to the  dictionary
for each word a person might take from it.

0.5: If he/she wishes, a field researcher may make his entry Public Domain
or overrule 0.2.1 simply by telling so in the new %c comments field of
his/her entry.  Overruling is strongly discouraged by the Guide's staff.
(please consult the Writing Guide for more on the %c field)


(1) The guide's staff is a synonym for the current guide's administration; it
includes everybody involved with the hitch hiker's guide to the known (and
unknown) galaxy and excludes everyone else who does/did the actual work like
the field researchers, the programmers, the pioneers, etc.


COMMENTS:

 Since it is vital that every active field researcher should be familiar with
 this entry, it is presumed that they actually are.

 This entry is left Public Domain (PD) for your own awareness, personal safety,
 & joyful entertainment.



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