Yes, the SFC has agreed to make a legal recommendation for or against bundling some eBooks with a Sugar distribution, but we will certainly not have a response by today.
We will deal with this by promoting the new eBooks wiki page in the two guest blog posts. I will have the press release draft later on (deadline is late afternoon EST) thanks Sean On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a very quick update on the current state of SoaS v2. > > We discovered on Tuesday that we wouldn't be able to ship content due to > legal concerns that was originally intended to be included and discussed > how to proceed in the last two days. Specifically, we won't include > anything that contains a CreativeCommons NC or ND clause, or any > equivalent license. > > Hence, we're going to ship only books from Project Gutenberg. I've taken > the task of replacing all books in question with adequate alternatives. > Please speak up if you've any book suggestion that: > > * is illustrated > * comes from Project Gutenberg > * is preferably in a language other than English (not required) > > On the other hand, while testing another RC locally in a VM, I figured > that Read crashed when attempting to *scroll* through an .epub file. > Additionally, one isn't able to open the content afterwards. > > This is almost certainly a blocker, but we *will* need to create the > master image this afternoon (Central European Time). If you've a spare > minute, please help us out here! > > Thanks, > --Sebastian > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
