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“ It may even yet be too soon to expect exact justice to be done to his excellences as a man, or his merits as a judge. But when passion and prejudices have subsided, when sober reason resumes her wonted place, the future historian will rank Judge Adams amongst the purest, wisest, ablest of the judges of the court which I now address. ”

“ On one occasion an attorney engaged in presenting his case to the court was very vehement in his language and gesticulations, and failed to present any points worthy of consideration. While the argument was in progress, I said to Judge Adams, in a whisper: "Why can't we see ourselves as others see us?" referring to the effort of counsel. The reply was, "It would never do; if we did, many of us would go out and hang ourselves."
Judge Adams was always of frail physical organization, and yet he retained all of his mental vigor until within a few hours of his death. ”

“ The definition of freedom only applies to restrictions attached to the work itself. This means that, for example, it is not free if the author released it under a license that does not allow reproduction. However, laws that affect the work locally do not affect the freedom of the work itself. For example, a public domain work may be banned in certain countries, but it remains public domain and free. Similarly, moral rights are not 'attached' to the work. Moral rights are created by local laws that affect works within the countries that recognize them. ”

“ I doubt if any man in Iowa has received greater recognition of his intellectual endowments and scholarly attainments than Judge Adams. For many years he was president of the non-partisan board of education of his adopted city, and in its entire history it never had a more valuable member than he. He was instrumental in the organization and maintenance of The Round Table, a gentlemen's literary club, which flourished in Dubuque for nearly, if not quite, a quarter of a century. ”

“ Wikisource is unique in being a free content library, as this quotation from the Licensing policy FAQ draft words rather well:
We are a project built on a principled mission—to create and encourage free content. Because of this, our policies are intended to further that mission, and not just to keep us from getting sued. Using images under licenses other than the ones we choose to accept may not get us in legal trouble (although in some cases they definitely can) , but they don't help us with our goals. ”

“ Yes, Austin Adams is dead; but, as I move that these resolutions be spread upon the records of this court, there comes unbidden to my mind a thought voiced upon a similar occasion. No, he is not dead. The effect of such a life as he lived cannot pass away. His deeds do not go down into the grave with him. ”

“ We're not all quite so hawkish on deleting things just because they don't meet a very narrow interpretation of "Free" - I imagine a better solution might be to create a template warning readers "While the bulk of this work is in the public domain, the original authors did incorporate some work which we cannot guarantee is equally public domain" or such, which we would then tag onto the appropriate texts. There is no reason to emasculate and lessen our great (and perfectly legal) resource, when we could simply be informing readers who can then make the choices themselves. ”

“ A judge needs not be oblivious to the weaknesses and the sufferings of humanity, but he must not permit his sympathies to warp his judgment, or his feelings to dethrone his reason. Judge Adams held the scales of justice with an absolutely even hand. ”

“ Perhaps because our primary purpose is the collection of source texts, the wiki software is ideal; there are far more texts written throughout human history than there are articles on every Wikipedia combined, and it is difficult enough to collect them all without being limited to a few webmasters and a static web site. With the wiki system, any visitor can instantly post a new text, create a translation, adjust an annotation, change a category, update an index, et cetera. ”

“ That in the death of the Honorable Austin Adams, a member of this bar for over thirty-six years, and a judge of the supreme court of this state for twelve years, the bar and state have lost a fellow member and citizen, distinguished alike for uprightness, purity and unselfishness of character, for simplicity and courtesy of manner, for great industry and learning both within and without his profession, and for the highest attainments and usefulness as lawyer, judge and man. ”

“ The Copyright policy prohibits fair use entirely, not only of entire works. A public domain text that contains fair use has the same restrictions as a fully copyrighted work, particularly since we explicitly allow commercial use and fair-use-incompatible rights in our end-user licensing. (Note that War and Peace is in the United States public domain because the United States does not recognize perpetual copyright.) ”

“ The young men of the Dubuque bar ever found in him a kindly adviser and a considerate friend. The ordinary marks of rank, such as are conferred by wealth and the like, were nothing to him. By the simplicity of his living he proved that the best things in this life can be enjoyed with very little money, and that it is not necessary to spend all one's energies to amass wealth in order to acquire culture and refinement. ”

“ Fair use does violate the Foundation's mission. All content, according to the Foundation licensing policy, must be available under a free content license as defined by the Definition of Free Cultural Works. This definition states that free content can be freely viewed, used, distributed, modified, and exploited by anyone, in any form, and for any purpose (including commercial exploitation) without exception and without limitation (with some very limited exceptions such as attribution) . The en-Wikisource copyright policy was recently rewritten based on this definition. ”

“ The relation of judges in the same court is sometimes designated as that of brother. The nature of the occupation is such that the term is not inappropriate in a social sense. It involves close and almost continuous personal association. Judge Adams impressed a stranger as a man of great dignity, amounting almost to austerity, and yet, when approached, he was the most genial, companionable and unselfish of men. No man excelled him in his consideration, sympathy and charity for others.
He was a most valued member of the court in consultation. ”

“ Since the goal of Wikisource is to be a source for "free texts", not "free ideas", the first applies to this site, while the second does not. My position regarding works covered by moral rights and other restrictions is: 1. if and when only a few jurisdictions are affected, tagging with a disclaimer is appropriate 2. if and when the vast majority of jurisdictions outside the US countries are affected, hosting these documents and then claiming that this site provides only free works to anyone is ridiculous, unless your definition of "anyone" is "Americans". ”

“ Although Wikisource does not require works to be free "everywhere"; it also does not tie itself so closely to US law as Pathoschild implies. The servers are in the US, which only means we cannot infringe on US copyright law not that we define free by US copyright law alone. Our goal of being a free content library is based on the principle of free content which is tied to no particular juristiction and must be defined outside of any one juristiction. ”

“ He has there "a monument more lasting than brass, and more sublime than the regal elevation of pyramids, which neither the wasting shower, the unavailing north wind, nor an innumerable succession of years, and the flight of seasons shall be able to demolish." ”

“ Perhaps these licenses will end up being too restrictive for us even with translations allowed, but they are not the same as a non-derivative license. At the least we should clearly determine what restrictions are the one that push the balance scale to "non-free" for future reference. I don't think whether parodies are allowed is a good test, because I believe that is an issue in any system with "droit d'auteur". I believe the part of law you have a problem with is dealing with w:Moral rights (i.e. the right to the integrity of the work) . ”

“ It was his misfortune to ask a continuance of popular favor at a time when popular prejudices were in the ascendant, and when the tempest of popular passion was accustomed to uproot everything that did not bow before it. ”

“ As Erik pointed out, our German sister project already has an index page with information for listeners and speakers, which I'd be willing to translate. Nevertheless, before a spoken work is advertised as complete/reliable, it should go through a quality control process, which, given that the audio files come from an external source, would incorporate special scrutiny that the spoken works are actually the same versions as their written equivalents on Wikisource. In this light, a check/upload bot might not actually be necessary, even unwanted sometimes. ”

“ No such maxim needs be invoked by him who speaks of the life and character of Judge Adams. No one who truthfully speaks can say aught but good of our departed friend. His life was exceptionally pure and blameless. ”

“ If I understand correctly, you would like Wikisource to enforce moral rights for all works worldwide, even for users not based in countries with moral right legislation. If so, this would mean either: requiring attribution for and prohibiting all changes to (including wikilinking, translation, annotations, et cetera) every work on Wikisource, given that requiring author's approval is incompatible with the GFDL (under which all Wikisource content is licensed) ”

“ Affectionate friends may rear to his memory marble column or granite shaft, but the most enduring monument to his fame is found in the thirty-two volumes of the decisions of this court, which contain his opinions. Whilst letters endure, and civilization remains, his fame is there secure. ”

“ If some wants input the entire National Geograohic Collection as subpages; GREAT! If someone wants to input all academic articles on fruit flies as stand alone pages; GREAT! Any contribution people want to make that fit the goals of this project is EXTREMELY WELCOME. We can make everything mesh together with tranclusion. The Manual of Style is tertiary. Trust the people that care most about the subject matter to make the best decision. If there is strong disagreement that cannot be compromised; consensus rules. ”

“ I've normalized the Catholic Encyclopedia header template, but I would suggest using the {{header2}} template directly. It automatically adjusts for empty parameters, so this is ideal for bot creation. Using the standard header template is preferable over a specialized template since it makes it easier for bots to parse pages; the specialized templates should generally only be used for works in progress, and replaced with the standard header (usually by substituting) when the work is complete. ”

“ When he was thirteen years old, his teacher urged upon his father that the son should receive a better education than he could procure at the district schoolhouse which, with the small Baptist church, stood in the edge of a grove upon the father's farm. This counsel resulted in his being sent to an academy at Townsend, Vermont, and to Black River Academy at Ludlow, Vermont, where he prepared for college. At nineteen, he entered the sophomore class of Dartmouth, from which he graduated in the class of 1848. I have no doubt that at college he was an indefatigable dig. ”

“ The reasoning outlined at "m:Do fair use images violate the GFDL?" is not applicable to Wikisource, where we are trying to build a free content library: "An image, when legitimately used under fair use doctrine, can be treated similar to public domain, and hence can be relicensed under GFDL. If further usage and distribution lead to the loss of fair use status of the image, default copyright law applies and the image and so the article cannot be distributed at all." ”

“ In his family he sought to show, by precept and example that every thought and act, whether good or bad, must bear fruit, that excellence was attained only by constant attention to the present, and that the acme of excellence was open to all. ”