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Originally Posted by Vikesrock
If I recall correctly, FIRST doesn't particularly like people mirroring the Game Manual. It is a copyrighted (?) document and cannot be mirrored without their express permission (I believe some have asked in the past and been denied).
I also agree that the picture viewer is a bit bizarre. The photos look like they are decent res, but they remain fairly small on the screen, even when clicked on.
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Originally Posted by CraigHickman
Yeah, they're kinda bipolar in that sense... They want to support engineering progress with closed proprietary standards. It's the same thing as Microsoft claiming they like to help people work together and stay connected, yet failing to support open standards and being adamantly opposed to Open Source. Just slap a CC License on the manual, and I'd be happy.
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I belive that one of the reasons that they do this is because the manual changes during the season, and gets updated. If a team grabs a version and post it to their website, it will be frozen at that version. The last thing we would want is someone downloading a version of the manual from somewhere online and have it not be up to date. If this happens the results could be that a team builds an illegal or unsafe robot.
IMO linking to the manual from your site is probably enough, you don't need to host the files.