Re: [Algol68-user] News: Algol 68 books on demand at google (expresso) books?

[Charles L. <ch...@cl...>]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:19:20 +0100, Neville Dempsey  
<Nev...@sg...> wrote:

> The following 5 books have already been scanned by Google Books and are
> already available as snippets (in 3 REALLY TINY).  I am guessing that
> with permission from the authors then Google Espresso Books would be
> permitted to print them also:
>
> "An Optimized translation process and its application to ALGOL 68":
> *  http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z90mAAAAMAAJ&q=transput
>
> "A practical guide to Algol 68":
> *  http://books.google.com.au/books?id=n_ImAAAAMAAJ&q=transput
>
> "Data structures of Pascal, Algol 68, PL/1 and Ada":
> * http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FfUmAAAAMAAJ&q=transput
>
> "Informal introduction to ALGOL 68": (This was previously available as a
> google book full page preview)
> * http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3h8sAAAAIAAJ&q=transput
>
> "Revised report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 68":
> * http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vyYuAAAAIAAJ&q=transput
>
> Are any Algol68 Book authors able to GPL their texts?  If so let me know
> and I will arrange scanning their texts and converting them to TeX or
> HTML and host them as sourceforce.net documentation.

The copyright of the Informal Introduction belongs to IFIP.

Likewise the Revised Report (which can, in addition, be republished  
without formality).

I have discussed the Google situation with the chair of the IFIP  
publications committee (or whatever it is called), and he would be happy  
to cooperate if I could find out the procedures necessary to permit Google  
to allow the full text to be viewed.

But the problem is that none of the relevant Google websites give any  
contact address for who you have to speak to to discuss such copyright  
issues, and all requests addressed to  
postmaster@all-plauusible-google-addresses get ignored.

If anyone can tell me how to get to speak to a real and relevant human at  
Google, I would be happy to try again.

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