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Akylas / conty

Interactive stories for kids. Download & play offline, anytime!
MIT License
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About stories in the app #3

Open Cwpute opened 4 days ago

Cwpute commented 4 days ago

Several questions which are essential but are not answered in the readme.

  1. Where do these stories come from ? where are they hosted ?
  2. How where these stories created, which software was used ?
  3. What's the licence on these stories ? Who owns them, have rights on them ? Who made them ?
  4. Is there parental control on this, can you restrict the type of stories shown, the way this app is used ?
  5. Is there any quality control on those stories ? if so, how is it done ?
farfromrefug commented 3 days ago

@Cwpute 1/ Stories comes from a dedicated community https://monurl.ca/lunii.creations 2/ the community comes with tools to create your own stories like studio or studio-pack-generator. The latter allows to very easily create packs from podcasts. 3/ All the stories coming from the community are license free (the community is very careful because it is also under the scope of Kid Story box companies like Lunii). 4/ For now no there is no parental control within the app. I guess you have to do that yourself. It is a good question though. I could easily limit import/download operation with biometrics so that the parent gets control over it. Would that be good for you? 5/ Yes the community listen and checks every story. There is publication process where you publish your pack then administrators listen to it because making it public

Cwpute commented 2 days ago

Thanks for your answers. All these informations need to appear somewhere in your Readme and your app, because if you're going to make an open-source app, we should know what type of content is going through it and what's their license. For example, the Discord link to that community should appear in the Readme and app, as well as the tools available for creating your own stories !

All the stories coming from the community are license free (the community is very careful because it is also under the scope of Kid Story box companies like Lunii).

Are the stories specifically labelled as such ? do their authors specifically tell about the license they want to use ? Because if they don't, then the content they create falls under general licensing laws of their own country. From a quick glance at the Discord server you linked, i understand there was a great clearance among community-created content to only allow original work or public domain based works... but this also applies to Public Domain works being reworked into new creations (such as stories/podcasts like those in Conty).

I could easily limit import/download operation with biometrics so that the parent gets control over it. Would that be good for you?

I meant parental control to restrict switching from this app to another one, restrict from downloading stories above a certain age-restriction or from specific categories. I'm not sure biometrics is the way to go for this ?

Could you please answer that second question i had that you probably forgot: where are the stories hosted at ? Is it on a private server, a public one ? is it on Lunii's servers ?

farfromrefug commented 1 day ago

@Cwpute The app (and thus this repo) is not a story provider. It just uses Raconte Moi Une Histoire as a default source for stories (mostly french ones). The app does give a link to the community discord (shown the first time you open the app and in the settings). The app is not responsible for the license of any of the stories (llike a youtube app is not responsible for the license of the videos/musics) so it does not have to state anything in the readme about it. I will add the link of the discord in the readme as an explanation of the default source but that's it. i might add links to some tools but there are many and all are explained/presented in the discord.

If you have questions about the license of the content from Raconte Moi Une Histoire please ask them on the discord, i am not affiliated with them (though i praise them for the immense work they are making).

About the parental control you talked about, i can't and wont do anything like that. It can only be done at a system level. I dont think i will restrict age content either. It is not something i want or plan on adding.

And about the hosting of stories, i have no idea. Again this is a question for Raconte Moi Une Histoire . This app is just pack "player". Please ask them on their discord. There is no reading from Lunii store, downloading from Lunii store, nor affiliation with Lunii. You are not allowed to extract stories from a Lunii nor should you play them in this app.