Questions about SqueakNews

Tansel tansel at squeakonline.com
Fri Jul 4 23:06:34 UTC 2003


Hi Diego,

Currently we are in the process of dissecting old issues to place each
article as a separate downloadable from the SqueakNews site. Our plan is any
article that is older than a year should be freely available on our site.

If you plan to put any articles or the issues as a whole to publish on the
web please note the following precautions:

If you would like to publish or change any article and publish it on your
web site, as a courtesy I would recommend to contact the author. Our initail
aim was to publish everything on the web and our comminication with authors
included that desire, so placing them on SqueakNews site will not be a
problem. For any other site I don't think with proper reference it would be
a problem again, but we left that authority with authors. Of course for
authors themselves there is no problem or restriction publishing their
articles. Only in case that their edited articles include some artwork then
it would be safer to clear with us first, or omit the artwork.

For the animated bitmaps, many of those (flying stork, clown, animated
telephone, etc) are copyright Animation Factory
(http://www.animationfactory.com/). As then Squeak News parent company
purchased and held a licence to use these graphics in its products anything
that comes under Squeak News can legally carry these graphics but their
extraction and usage in other projects would violate the licence. However
many of these graphics are available for free from the Animation Factory
site so if you can locate the graphics in their free section then just
agreeing to their conditions and downloading the graphics should be
sufficient. In the case that you would need to use many of these graphics it
only costs about $40 to subscribe to the online section of Animation
factory. This would give you a right to use up to 50 in your project but
again you must locate and download graphics from their site first to satisfy
their licence, or you can buy their CD collections as we did.

The September 2001 issue carried some copyright material from third parties
which we couldn't clear it to make it available to general public so any
placement of the September issue as a whole from anywhere apart from Squeak
News site, and making available download of one demo (Cinema Squeak)  in
that issue would be a problem.

An issue with publishing individual articles is to actually be able to
separate them into individual projects that can cleanly load into images
like Squeakland image, as they share a lot of ad-hoc (and some hair raising)
code and use some odds and ends that make the task difficult. I would like
them to be offered with their background intact but they become quite big
with the artwork around them.

Any assistance in dissecting old issues to individual articles would be
welcome and would accelerate the progress of placing them on our site.

For the content to be translated to Spanish, we actually did it for the
first issue. I got incredible support from you guys in Argentina, especially
Luciano, Leandro, Gerardo, an Juan Manuel. We haven't received any requests
for the Spanish version, about 20 or so orders from Spanish speaking
countries were all interested in the English version. In the end it was too
much burden to maintain a Spanish site (was: Squeaknoticias.com)  and now
have plans to offer articles in various languages in the e-zine with a
language button rather than trying to publish the e-zine in 2 or 3 different
languages. Also the guys in Berne, especially Stephane were very helpful and
willing to help in offering articles in different languages.

If anyone could help with translation of articles to any language we would
very much appreciate and incorporate it in the issues and in archives.

Cheers,

Tansel

>
> I have a couple of questions about SqueakNews.
>
> - What is the status of the old issues of SqueakNews related to the
license?
>
> - Can the old issues be published for free-downloading from Internet?
>
> - Can the content of them be translated to, for example, Spanish?
>
> TIA,
>
> Diego
>
>
>
>




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