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Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:03:29 -0800 |
Hello Mark,
You have my enthusiastic permission to use portions of the "Lessons In
Electric Circuits" textbook series for your stated purpose. Best
wishes on your project! Feel free to contact me again if you have any
further questions or requests.
Sincerely,
Tony Kuphaldt
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:54:54 -0800, Mark <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Tony
>
> I am the founder of a, originally, South African project to try to boost
> education in
> South Africa by reducing the cost of science textbooks. Previously I
> contacted Ben Crowell
> about using some of the content from Light and Matter but we haven't got
> round to
> that yet. The availability of textbooks is a real problem area and we
> have documentation to back it up if you
> are interested. Our project page is:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst
>
> We want to publish our content under the Gnu Free Documentation License.
> Our primary
> objective is to create books which are specific to the SA syllabus as
> fast as possible. I know
> that your electric circuits stuff is under the Design Science License
> and our project is in the
> same spirit. I would like to ask you to release some (not a lot
> actually) of your content (as the copyright holder you can)
> to us to use in our textbooks. It'll still be free, without warranty and
> protected for derivative works by the GFDL, and we'll list you as a
> major contributor. We are definitely working in the same spirit as the
> OpenBook project.
>
> There is much debate about the different free licenses and simply we use
> the GFDL because its supposed
> to be publisher friendly, it is used by WikiPedia and WikiBooks giving
> us access to information from these
> resources and it was the first one we found.
>
> We have no intention of trying to make money off the books, we are
> primarily trying to boost education
> in Southern Africa which is stable for the first time. See the
> presentation under News on our website for some startling facts.
>
> I have attached a pdf file containing the content from your books that
> I'd like to use. I also integrated the content, temporarily,
> into the book and put it up on the web page so you could see how it
> would fit.
>
> Would you be prepared to help us out by releasing the content? It would
> be a major help for us and we'll definitely
> give credit to you guys as major contributors?
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Mark
>
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> Mark Horner
>
> Jabber/AIM/Yahoo: marknewlyn
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> Co-author:
> http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/fhsst
>
> "Life is but a seg-fault away ...
>
> Life received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x42074d40 in calloc () from /lib/i686/liblife.so.6"
>
>
>
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