On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 06:12:32PM -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:53:11PM -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote: >> >>> Does anyone have plans to create a Fedora RPM for the Perseus Digital >>> Library? >>> >>> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/opensource >>> >>> I'm not quite ready to commit to creating one, but I'm definitely >>> playing with the idea. I'd have to figure out roughly how much of my >>> free time would be needed first. >>> >> >> Incidentally, isn't the non-commercial license incompatible with >> Fedora? > > If it is, that would answer the question .... > >> And more to the point, aren't these texts unquestionably >> public domain (the ancient Greeks never had such a concept as >> copyright, and the collections date from 300-2500 years old) ... >> > > Probably not "unquestionably", people use textual criticism to assemble > a text, one edition of a given Greek work looks a little different from > another. People who create critical texts have typically copyrighted > them. > > But I'm not sure what issue you are pointing at here. Educate me! Well, I'm just looking at the URL you posted before: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/opensource <quote> Texts are licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license </quote> BTW, I can probably help here, coz I read classical Greek & Latin moderately well, and it'd be great to have truly free texts in Fedora. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
