Hello,

  As Alan wrote, the copyright holder is Ball State University.  You
can imagine that it would not be as simple as re-copyrighting Squeak
itself <g>.

  Viewpoints Research has the right to distribute; as far as I know,
the term require us not to make any profit.

  So, one can argue that why we bother to charge a nominal fee, when
it doesn't have to be profitable.  And, yes, spreading words of mouth
is one of the biggerst reason for this DVD to exist after all.

  On the other hand, Viewpoints Research always welcomes donations.
The Executive Director is thinking to start donation raising activity
on the web and this DVD can be a part of it.

  I don't recommend you to copy, nor rip the disc off at this point
(although strictly speaking the copyright holder wouldn't like the
idea), but I hope that the physical disc and professionally designed
jacket have some value that justify $8 and hope that who can afford it
afford it.

-- Yoshiki

At Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:37:00 +0200,
Samir Saidani wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I found this DVD very useful to promote Squeak around me, and I wonder
> in which extent we could have an open-source movie ? If our aim is to
> spread Squeak around the world, it could be more efficient to give
> users/teachers/students the possibility to share this movie (in divx
> format for instance) rather to buy it, in the same way that it's more
> efficient to give users/teachers/students the possibility to share
> Squeak rather to buy it. Moreover it would be logic that a movie
> promoting Squeak and its freedom aspect should apply to the movie
> itself, a kind of reflective coherence principle... Say what you do,
> do what you say...
> 
> An interesting links:
> http://creativecommons.org/learn/artistscorners/filmmakers
> 
> Regards,
> Samir
> 
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