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FNORD: Under the terms of "Shike"'s Creative Commons license [Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0], one may not use "Shike" for commercial purposes without Mr. Shea's permission. In addition, no derivative works are allowed, which means one may not alter, transform, or...

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Greg Weeks commented on Robert J. Shea's SHIKE released with CC
> So next question for you fine folks: Would > anyone be willing to volunteer to scan and > OCR Shaman or Saracen? I offered to do both by running them through www.pgdp.net for Project Gutenberg. There's a written permissions letter (it gives away less than the Creative Commons license you used) then the books go to pgdp to be proofed. The text ends up on Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org. You then take the text and re-release without the PG license under whatever CC license you want. It does take more than six months to go through the process. Greg Weeks...
bshock commented on Robert J. Shea's SHIKE released with CC
I read this novel (actually, two novels, as I recall) back when they were first published. It was a fairly enjoyable reinterpretation of the Heike Monogatari and surrounding historical events....
mshea commented on Robert J. Shea's SHIKE released with CC
Hi Greg, can you send me an email at mike@mikeshea.net? I'd like to talk to you more about how to do this. Thank you very much! Mike Shea...
UncommonSense commented on Robert J. Shea's SHIKE released with CC
woot! Finally finished reading this last night (around 2am) Maybe I'll finally get some sleep. What a great read! I kept going on tangents, comparing it to the historical context, and I learned alot that I had never known about the era. Now to make good on the offer Mike made - reading a free novel in exchange for submitting corrections. What OCR was used anyway? I'm curious why there are so many capital E's. Mike, how do you want corrections handled or sent?...
UncommonSense commented on Robert J. Shea's SHIKE released with CC
Ooops, didn't realize I was the last one here. I'm a slow reader. Well then, I guess I'll just turn out the lights as I leave......

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