[Coco] Hundreds of old CoCo Disks - Followup

[Andrew]

All,

The following is kinda (in part) in response to my responses to the 
whole "Rainbow on DVD" thread going on, and also in response to (IIRC) 
Boisy's response on the line of "put up or give up" - or something, in 
regards to past projects, etc. This post may turn out longer than 
expected - I appologize.

A long time ago (July 2006), one of the members of this list (Carey 
Eugene) posted advice on what to do with a bunch of old floppies. He 
recently posted asking about "what happenned".

Well, when he posted, I took him up on the offer, and got a large chunk 
of the floppies sent to me. Another separate chunk went to another 
member, Tim Lindner. The set of floppies in each case were different - I 
received the "easy to handle" floppies, Tim received all of the 
copy-protected ones.

I managed to convert over 95% of the floppies I received into virtual 
.DSK format images. I created a CD image of these, with an HTML linkage 
page for them. The remaining floppies I couldn't copy, I sent to Tim to 
become a part of his images.

I don't know the status of his portion of the project, but I consider my 
end to be complete, with one caveat:

I haven't been able to distribute the images to the community.

Carey wanted this to occur - this was why he sent them to me and Tim, 
not to preserve them for himself (though he did get a copy of the 
images), but to preserve them for the community. I sincerely want to 
honor his wishes, but I don't know what to do, so I am asking for any 
and all advice and help.

Basically, what it boils down to is that:

a) I have created complete images of most of the disks I received
b) Some of these images contain software that I have reason to believe 
are still being actively pursued by copyright holders for violations
c) I don't want to break up the archive
d) I don't have time or desire to attempt to weed out these possible 
violations (some I know of, but there could be others lurking which I 
have no idea about)
e) I have no desire to spend more time on this project beyond getting 
the images distributed

I was attempting to find an individual or someone outside the USA who 
could host the CD ISO for me on an FTP server in another country, and my 
name would not be on the release. But that doesn't look likely to occur. 
I don't want to host it myself, but I don't know what to do or where to 
turn, except to the community, to figure out what to do with it.

I am not even sure whether I should "name names" as to who the most 
likely copyright holder who would pursue legal action even is (did that 
even make sense?)...

I humbly ask for your help and advice - I will reply/respond as I have 
time. Thank you...

-- Andrew L Ayers, Glendale, Arizona