Discussion of all things related to Public Domain

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>]

Tom,

I'm not sure what you mean by databank.  If you're referring to 
internationalizing the interface (translating the text), we'll be 
launching an effort to accomplish this early next year.  If you're just 
referring to the user interface, of course all the code is available.  I 
doubt we'll package source RPMs, so if you want to create a derivative 
work, you're best bet is to check it out from CVS.

Hope that answers your questions,

Nathan

tom poe wrote:

> Hi, Nathan:  That's great news.  I look forward with anticipation to
> your upcoming rpm release.  And I am sure Olu is also:
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> Olu is a singer/songwriter in Africa, someplace.  I heard from him last
> a few weeks ago.  He was leaving Ghana, and headed for South Africa, in
> hopes of pursuing his music career.  We met almost two years ago, when
> he emailed Open Studios about helping him with his career.  He is one of
> the untold millions around the world that have to choose between lunch
> and paying for email.  He has no computer, but with lots of hard work
> and effort (and many missed lunches), we now have accomplished a small
> feat in his being able to collaborate with an Independent Artist here in
> the United States and create a CD with his original song.
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> With the wonderful work you are doing, we hope to be able to help the
> Olus of the world license with creativecommons.org and upload their
> works to the archive.org's repository, and register that location with
> tools/sites such as commoncontent.org, sharedmusic.org, gnomoradio.org,
> webjay.com, radioaid.com, SONG STORM and others.  We'd like to be able
> to have access to the databank you use for the critical steps of
> licensing with creativecommons.org and uploading to archive.org. 
> Hopefully, that databank will be available through rmp source code.  Is
> that correct?  The reason I ask, is that we will need to work hard to
> come up with a form that folks in non-English-speaking countries, and
> developing nations, will be able to feel comfortable with.  The idea is
> to minimize the frustrations of our volunteers that will be working
> one-on-one with musicians and artists to complete the forms properly.
> Happy New Year, 
> Tom
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> On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 04:17, Nathan R. Yergler wrote:
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> > Tom,
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> > ccPublisher is already Open Source.  You can download the sources from 
> > CVS at SourceForge.net.  We will also be providing a Linux build 
> > (probably RPM initially) soon after 1.0 is released.  We're down to one 
> > bug that's blocking 1.0, so I'm hopeful for a 1.0 and Linux build in the 
> > next couple of weeks.
> >
> > Thanks for your interest in ccPublisher, and please let me know if you 
> > have any feedback or suggestions.
> >
> > Nathan R. Yergler
> > Software Engineer
> > Creative Commons
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> > tom poe wrote:
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> > > Hi, Nathan:  Happy Holidays to you.
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> > > Will you be providing an Open Source/Linux/Unix version of ccpublisher? 
> > > If so, we could build on what you've done, in order to spread the word
> > > and encourage Independent Artists to seek out your application and use
> > > it for their work.
> > >
> > > Happy New Year,
> > > Tom Poe
> > > Open Studios
> > > Reno, NV, USA
> > > www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/ 
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