2.2 KiB
Legacy PDF publication review
Review date: 2026-08-03
Decision
All 332 recovered PDFs are approved for publication on the open wiki. On 2026-08-03, the repository maintainer confirmed that permission had been obtained from the document creators and that the files may be exposed on the wiki.
| Category | Files | Publication decision |
|---|---|---|
| Creator permission confirmed by repository maintainer | 332 | Approved |
The per-file decisions and review signals are recorded in docs/pdf-publication-review.tsv. The original recovery inventory remains in docs/pdf-inventory.tsv.
Publication rule
A file is approved only when there is affirmative evidence that public redistribution is allowed, such as:
- a compatible Creative Commons or equivalent open licence;
- a public-domain dedication; or
- documented permission from the relevant rights holder.
The absence of a copyright notice is not treated as permission. For this collection, the affirmative basis is the repository maintainer's confirmation that creator permission was obtained.
Primary references:
- Dutch Copyright Act (Auteurswet)
- European Commission: step-by-step guide to copyright in education
- European Commission IP Helpdesk copyright FAQ
Review method
All 332 PDFs were parsed page by page for text and metadata. The review searched for affirmative licences, explicit redistribution restrictions, third-party publisher indicators, and privacy indicators. Twenty-three image-heavy files with insufficient text extraction received OCR review of their first and last pages. No affirmative reuse licence or public-domain dedication was found.
The automated screen remains useful provenance but is not the publication basis. The permission confirmation supersedes the earlier hold decisions, and the per-file TSV records that status. The approved files are published byte-identically under public/media/legacy-dokuwiki/.