On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:33:19 +0700, Ivan wrote in message <86d334n18g....@gray.siamics.net>:
> Software Freedom Day is near, and those involved are slowly > getting their stuff done. Here in Russia, a few teams have > decided that we may benefit from including short notes on > various free software packages into our “Join us on SFD 2012!” > flyers, and FlightGear was one of such packages (along with > Firefox, VLC, and a few more. Check, e. g., [1]; though the > discussion is obviously in Russian.) ..going there with the Chromium browser, translation is semi-automatic, just click the button in the drop-down translation menu bar. Other browsers may have to use e.g. http://translate.google.com/ . Beware of network interception etc if you live in democratically challenged areas. > Our author has translated a paragraph or so of the > Introduction [2] page into Russian to use it as the basis for such a > note, only to discover later that there's no statement allowing for > such a use on that page. > > I wonder, is there a way for such a use be authorized by the > Website keepers? For now, most of the other notes' content is > derived from Wikipedia articles, and thus is licensed CC > BY-SA. Ideally, all the text on our notes should be available under > this or a compatible license, so that the very flyers design > would by itself be an example of a free work. > > (Obviously, we'd thankfully use any other free software-, and > thus FlightGear-related, promotional materials just as well, > such as posters, videos, flyers, etc. Any suggestions on that > will be apprecieated.) > > TIA. > > [1] > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.foss.sfd.planning.ru/47 > [2] http://flightgear.org/about/ > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
