[IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom

[Bryan Berry]

I am quite curious why you haven't chosen to release it under an
open-source license. Could you explain the reasons why you chose a
restrictive copyright for this work?


-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Rose <kim.rose at vpri.org>
To: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>
Cc: Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com>,
its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:18:36 -0700

You now have that permission!
  Kim Rose
Executive Director
Viewpoints Research Institute


On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:

>
> The Copyright notice on the book says "All Rights Reserved" which  
> means
> I have to get the written permission from VPRI before making any  
> change
> and redistributing it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com>
> To: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>,
> its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org
> Cc: kim.rose at vpri.org
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom
> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:38:43 -0700 (PDT)
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. This book has been freely used as a  
> base for
> translations into Japanese, Spanish,.Portuguese, etc. It can certainly
> be freely translated into Nepalese.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>
> To: its.an.education.project at tema.lo-res.org
> Cc: kim.rose at vpri.org
> Sent: Monday, July 7, 2008 6:05:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Powerful ideas in the classroom
>
>> A complete PDF of the "Powerful Ideas in the Classroom" book can be
>> downloaded here:
>> http://www.squeakland.org/tmp/PowerfulIdeas-20041018.zip
>
> I have looked at this book before and been quite impressed w/ it.
>
> I am concerned that it is not open-source. It would be quite useful  
> for
> us in Nepal to translate individual portions and put them into
> individual lesson plans tied to the national curriculum. The current
> licensing scheme discourages this.
>
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> Bryan W. Berry
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Bryan W. Berry
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OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org