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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kde-edu-devel] contributed data files for the edu apps
From:       Jason Harris <kstars () 30doradus ! org>
Date:       2001-10-23 18:35:22
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Hello,

oops, I missed the part where you said the teacher sent in text from his 
lesson book, I was assuming they sent in original work to which they hold the 
copyright....sorry.

Jason

On Tuesday 23 October 2001 02:29 pm, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2001 17:54, Ewald Arnold wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just got a vocabulary file for kvoctrain from a user. So I am wondering
> > what to do with contributions for one of our apps. It would be nice to
> > offer them online.
> >
> > An important issue is copyright. Is it a legal problem for us if a user
> > takes his lesson book, enters the words himself and sends us the file?
> > Does anyone know more about this in general?
>
> I am no lawyer, but I'd say, textbooks are a matter of authorship and thus
> we are not allowed to publish such files/data.
>
> Maybe we should add author information to data files and accept only files
> where the author is set and seems to be correct. Together with a note on
> the webserver, that we only accept selfmade data, we shouldn't get a
> problem.
>
> Greetings,
> eva
>
> > cheers
> > Ewald
>
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