FamilySearch/gedcomx — Issue #151: Permission Rights of GEDCOMX files
Author: EssyGreen
Created: 2012-02-24 19:12:40+00:00
State: open

How are the rights/permissions intended to be managed for GEDCOMX files given the needs for (a) publishers to restrict editing to preserve their data and copyright vs (b) researchers to control/edit/document their own source media.

For example, if I have a file with an image copy of a source which I want to add my own transcription/interpretations to then will I be physically able to do this or will I be forced to create a derivative source which references the original? Similarly, if I receive an file from say Ancestry which has an image copy and a bad transcription, will I be physically able to correct that within the file or will I be forced to create a derivative and if so how do I separate the image copy which I want from the bad transcription which I want to throw away?