On 7/14/05, Conrad Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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. >
Absolutely. What we need to package is the WikiMedia commons, which are freely licensed images (though some are DFSG-nonfree, being GFDL and CC by-sa 2.0). Images on the Commons cannot be fair use. There is a strong drive on the various WikiMedia projects to put all free images on the commons, as then all projects can access it. Corey -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
