My intent is to place the Electronics Course under a form of
CopyLeft,
called the
Design Science License,
at some point in the future. The reason that it is
not presently under that
license has to do with clauses in the license that require me to
specify what exactly the "source data" is. I want to do this, but the mp3
recordings I have provided here, are not the source, they are Blade Encoded
40 K bit mp3 renditions of the original recordings of my voice. It would
require an unreasonable amount of server space to hold simple voice dot wave
files, and to standardize the master recordings as high bit rate mp3, in my
view, violates the spirit, and perhaps, the letter of
copyleft,
since the ownership of mp3 is in dispute.
Ogg Vorbis to the rescue:
This page is at present far from complete, I intend to make higher bitrate
Ogg Vorbis masters of these recordings, and make those available for download
under the terms of the Design Science License, in the meantime if you want
an early copy for distribution, or integration into your work, I advise
strongly against this, but if you insist, I will do my best to accommodate
your needs. If I receive a sizable amount of mail on this subject, I may
simply divert my attention away from creating course material, to deal with
this issue. That would likely not be in anyones interest, including yours.
When I make all of this available, the images will be dot png, and maybe some
dot jpg files, but no dot gif files, again, violating the spirit, if not the
letter, of the copyleft license, since both Unisys, and Compuserve, claim
some ownership of the LZW compression inside the dot gif format.
Know then: The distribution version, is not likely to contain finished
animated gifs, instead it will hold the original dot png files that I made
for each frame of the movie, thus I am not placing encumbered files under
the Design Science License. Indeed I intend to at some point revise this whole
web page to remove any files that use non free data formats, after I find
suitable free substitutes. That is why, there is at present, no mass download
provision, as advertised in lesson "002 How best to use this course". I'm
sorry if this inconveniences you, but there is a work around, acquire the
program wget, or webget as it is sometimes referred to, disable the offsite
branches of the tree, and download my whole course.