>From Steve Torrefranca on Thursday, 2005-07-14 at 11:12:49 +0800: > hello everyone, > > I have been trying out the softwares that were listed in both edubutu > and Skolelinux site and am really excited to see how my little girl > thinks about linux when i go back home next month. everything has been > great... snofrix too was nice which sky rocketed my expectations of > edubuntu-desktop. > > except for one important thing - encyclopedia and dictionary. i have > looked around the ubuntu packaged but none on encyclopedia.
At the LinuxTag in Germany, this was a Frequently Asked Question: i.e. is it possible to apt-get install wikipedia ??? The answer currently is no. According to what I understand, the images in wikipedia are included based on the principle of fair use, but this is not sufficient to permit redistribution, which is a necessary prerequisite for inclusion in Debian/Ubuntu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_FAQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fair_use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_description_page It would of course be interesting to go into this question in more detail, and discover if at least a subset of wikipedia could be included in the framework of free software/free content. Conrad -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
