Sebastian Rahtz <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> The ODD source of P4 is not publicly available for two
> reasons
>  a) at last count, the Board of Directors decided to
[...]

> hope that makes sense.

Yes, no -- it depends on your POV.

My very personal POV is, if a public project is finished it's in the
public interest to publish _all_ source like data (including the
environmental things like processing tools).  Since the TEI is funded
by public money (right?), I'd say the TEI is a public project; at least,
public resources are used to keep the TEI running (a good thing, of
course!).

It's also dubious to make such a fuss about the .pdf file as a whole.
Note, I'd happily buy a printed copy of TEI P4 if nicely bound and
priced fairly etc. pp. (in the past I bought the green books, in case
that matters).  I'm not willing to spend money for a .pdf file produced
by university members--universities are funded by public money and I
don't want to pay twice.

My very personal POV, as said above.

PS.  I'm curious: Who are the members of the Board?
http://www.tei-c.org/Consortium/TEI-TEI-C.html#TEI-board -- thus "us"
and the "Board" members are overlapping entities.

PPS.  Many projects located at German universities are even worse.

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