Hi Tansel,

Thank you for your fast answer!

I forgot to mention the context of my questions.

I don't plan to modify the SqueakNews at all but put them in some server
(with enough space and bandwidth) so everybody can have a copy of these
great piece of the dynabook vision.

If I understood correctly I can put the freely but NOT the September/2001
issue, is this true?

On other side we're trying to translate all the content related to squeak
and education and we're very interested in the translation of the
October/2001 issue, can we take this translation job and publish the
content for free?

I forgot that the first issue was already translated to Spanish, is this
translation available to download?

TIA,

Diego

> 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