unedited texts meriting attention?

[Dominik Wujastyk]

GRUENENDAHL said:
> The Nepal-German Manuscript
> Preservation Project has microfilmed practically all these 
> manuscripts. The microfilmed material is enough to keep several 
> generations of scholars busy, and it is available with relative ease.

... to German nationals only.

I would love to know why this part of the German-Nepalese contract was
agreed to.  Whose idea was it?

Dominik