Hi,
2013/10/21 Vishnu <[email protected]> > Dear Chakravarthy, > > Most certainly! Anyone from the community (including eTelugu.org) should > be able to FREELY use it, study it, share/redistribute it and improve it. > All the four freedoms on which Wikipedia is being built by all of us. > Sorry could not follow here: Software has four freedoms ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#Definition ). Wikipedia content is released under CC-BY-SA or equivalent or bettter licenses from the point of view of sharing, Of course the software that runs could meet with four freedoms. > > Whenever the CD is ready a copy can be given to eTelugu.org and you could > make and distribute as many copies as possible. We could even make a > soft-copy available for free download. The more the better :) > +1, The CD preparation involves lot of work. Please see the discussion and links on Wikipedia<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%89%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81> and encourage e-telugu team to contribute. Cheers Arjuna > > Best, > Vishnu > > > On 10/21/2013 9:49 PM, Chakravarthy DSK wrote: > > Dear Vishnu / Arjuna Rao, > > While I'm reading this conversation, I'm also in couple of thoughts. > Please let me know if I'm not spoiling the interest of this discussion. > > Once the CD is ready for distribution, do you think that it would be a > good idea to share with the community at a minimal cost? The reason behind > this question is that, as part of eTelugu.org, it is a practice that we > participate in the book exhibition that happens during the last week of > December. I'm just wondering that if we can distribute that, it would be a > great initiative. > > What do you folks (or) anyone think of this idea? > > Thanks for reading. > > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear Vishnu, >> >> >> 2013/10/17 vishnu <[email protected]> >> >>> Thanks for informing Arjuna garu. >>> >>> AFAIK we could go ahead and use these images as per the fair use >>> clause if Indian Copyright Act, especially for the purpose of education. We >>> could even print a disclaimer on the CD. >>> >>> Thanks for your response. We do need to have solid institutional >> ownership for the CD. >> >> >>> It will be useful to write to Malayalam Wikimedia Community members >>> also to check how they have resolved this issue. >>> >>> Shiju has responded on another thread and I updated the link he >> shared on our discussion page. >> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:దశాబ్ది_ఉత్సవాలు#సిడి >> తయారీ సాధ్యాసధ్యాలు >> >> >>> It will be a good initiative if we could replace as many such images >>> as possible with free licensed ones. Would be nice if we could try to take >>> it up as a community project for the next 45 days. I will do my two cents >>> of contribution for this. >>> >> >> Yes, But for many logos, maps related to our culture , context, it is >> close to impossible. >> >> This will be a great initiative as it helps to cleanup our image >> content, irrespective of the final scope of CD. >> >> I request more people across the City and Language SIGs to participate >> in this initiative. >> >> Cheers >> Arjuna >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd >> >> > > > -- > ధన్యవాదములతో, > భవదీయుఁడు, > చక్రవర్తి > ------------------------------- > మూఁడు మూర్తులకును మూఁడు లోకములకు > మూఁడు కాలములకు మూల మగుచు > భేద మగుచుఁ దుది నభేదమై యొప్పారు > బ్రహ్మ మనఁగ నీవె ఫాలనయన! > > > > -- > *T. Vishnu Vardhan* > Programme Director - Access to Knowledge > Centre for Internet and Society > www.cis-india.org > _______________________________________________ WikiTe-L mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikite-l
