Re: [OLPC library] Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-07 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 6, 2008 2:50 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:35 , Walter Bender wrote: For point of information, the GCompris front end to gnuchess has been ported to the laptop. Enjoy. -walter ... and a chess game is shipping in Etoys. - Bert - Josh is

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-06 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:35 , Walter Bender wrote: For point of information, the GCompris front end to gnuchess has been ported to the laptop. Enjoy. -walter ... and a chess game is shipping in Etoys. - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread Edward Cherlin
Copied to OLPC mailing lists and Librarian Chick, cataloguer of free textbooks. On Feb 5, 2008 7:36 AM, Joshua Waitzkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Edward, Many thanks for following up. Jack Hidary told me about this program over dinner a couple weeks ago. I think it is just wonderful and I

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello, and thanks for your interest! On Feb 5, 2008 4:53 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Copied to OLPC mailing lists and Librarian Chick, cataloguer of free textbooks. On Feb 5, 2008 7:36 AM, Joshua Waitzkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Edward, Many thanks for following up.

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread ffm
On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well. Outstanding. Unless there's a Linux port I don't know about, this might be hard to work out... We can always use Wine, no?

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well. Outstanding. Unless there's a Linux port I don't know about, this might be hard to work out...

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread ffm
On Feb 5, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well. Outstanding. Unless

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well.

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread Edward Cherlin
Hey, you idiots, no bickering in front of the donor! On Feb 5, 2008 4:22 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 5, 2008 2:29 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Edward/library list, We spoke last week when you were on Forum with Michael Krasny. I asked about licensing The Art of Learning for use on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer in developing countries. We would

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread Walter Bender
For point of information, the GCompris front end to gnuchess has been ported to the laptop. Enjoy. -walter -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Licensing for One Laptop Per Child

2008-02-05 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 5, 2008 4:02 PM, Joshua Waitzkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, sounds great to me. How do you normally arrange for licenses with authors? Give me a sense for what I should present to my publisher, and I'll do it. We prefer Creative Commons licenses for content, either Attribution or