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Cheer Xiao
Translation & redistribution, and cross-platform media streaming
Hi, it s me again :) I ve got a few problems. In mainland China there is fewer than 5 books that introduces basic modern Greek(most of which out of print), and no books with recording. Even on the Internet there is no comprehensive guide for basic modern Greek, and recordings of native speakers are even harder to find. The foreign language departments of 2 universities(namely Beijing Foreign Studies University and Shanghai International Studies University) print their own textbooks, and the books are accessible only to the students. So I m considering translating your material to simplified Chinese and redistribute it using some free license like CC-BY-NC. A stricter end-user license would be possible legally, but impossible to carry out because copyright law is almost ignored in mainland China especially on the Internet. I wish I could acquire formal permission. Some restrictions, like no video, would be acceptable, but the audio(at least the dialog and vocabulary) would be essential.
Another problem: I m currenly working on my Linux laptop and there is no WMP plugin available. I wish that we could switch to some more friendly (with a single status/progress bar each page, and things like that) and cross-platform solutions; I know some open-source solutions based on Flash and it won t require much work. Also, I m a college student majoring in Computer Science, and I can get the job if I could be granted access to the source of the webpages.
Also thanks to the material. It s quite hard to find Greek lessons with audio on the Internet, even those in English.
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