Copyright Information
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This material is from Marilee  
Hanson's Tudor England Collection at http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html, 
distributed with her permission (shown as below).


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> From: Marilee Mongello <marilee@englishhistory.net>
> Date: 4 May 2007 3:25:52 AM
> To: Ian Witten <ihw@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
> Subject: Re: Tudor England Collection
> Reply-To: email@englishhistory.net
>
> Mr Witten, forgive me for not replying sooner - I have serious spam  
> problems with my email address so it takes a while to sort through  
> everything to get to non-spam messages.
>
> It sounds like a wonderful project, and I certainly don't mind if  
> you use the materials from my site.  You can use my name - Marilee  
> Hanson - when you credit the material and / or site.
>
> Good luck with your work, and please let me know if you need  
> anymore information.
>
> Take care,
> -Marilee Hanson
>
> Ian Witten <ihw@cs.waikato.ac.nz> wrote: Marilee, can you help me  
> with the request below that I sent you a
> week ago? Do you need any more information?
> cheers
> ian
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Ian Witten
> > Date: 23 April 2007 11:25:45 AM
> > To: marilee@englishhistory.net
> > Cc: Shaoqun Wu
> > Subject: Tudor England Collection
> >
> > Marilee, this is an unusual request.
> >
> > I run the New Zealand Digital Library project (http://nzdl.org),
> > and we have produced the Greenstone Digital Library Software
> > (httip://greenstone.org) which is widely used around the world,
> > particularly in developing countries, and is sponsored and
> > supported by UNESCO. Greenstone is open source, distributed under
> > the GNU General Public License. If you are interested in learning
> > more about the project, a brief history appears at
> >
> > http://greenstonewiki.cs.waikato.ac.nz/wiki/gsdoc/others/
> > Greenstone_history.htm
> >
> > We run training courses for the Greenstone software, and are
> > producing a collection of Tutorial Exercises for people to use in
> > training courses and for independent study. We seek interesting
> > material to use as the basis for training exercises, and would like
> > to use material from your Tudor England Collection for three of the
> > exercises.
> >
> > You can see the exercises in draft form at
> >
> > http://greenstonewiki.cs.waikato.ac.nz/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/en/
> > large_html_collection.htm
> > http://greenstonewiki.cs.waikato.ac.nz/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/en/
> > enhanced_html_collection.htm
> > http://greenstonewiki.cs.waikato.ac.nz/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/en/
> > enhanced_html_collection.htm
> > http://greenstonewiki.cs.waikato.ac.nz/wiki/gsdoc/tutorial/en/
> > downloading_from_internet.htm
> >
> > ()there is a list of all the exercises at http://
> > greenstonewiki.cs.waikato.ac.nz/wiki/index.php/Tutorial_exercises)
> >
> > I don't expect you will find these exercises very interesting! -- I
> > am just giving you the context for my request. When students do the
> > exercises, they end up producing a Greenstone collection like the
> > one at
> >
> > http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=tudor
> >
> > What I am asking for is permission from you to use this material
> > from your website in our exercises, and also on a CD-ROM
> > incorporating the Greenstone software that UNESCO will distribute
> > freely in developing countries. All this stuff is given away for
> > free; this is not a for-profit exercise (quite the reverse!)
> >
> > Ideally we would like a letter from you stating that it is OK for
> > us to use the material in the way I have outlined, and distribute
> > it freely. I would also like to know just how you would like the
> > credits worded in the exercises at the above URLs.
> >
> > I realize that copyright is a very complex business -- and judging
> > from your website I think you know more about it than I do -- but
> > it would be nice to have some kind of letter stating that our
> > intended use is OK. In fact, the people who produce the UNESCO CD-
> > ROM may require documentation that we have permission to reproduce
> > all the material on it.
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing from you
> > ian
> >
> > Ian H. Witten
> > Director, New Zealand Digital Library Project
> >
> >
>
> 
