Sometime on Jun 30, Vickram Crishna assembled some asciibets to say:
Why am I so interested? As some of you will know from my earlier mail, I have initiated the Hawking Communicator project in Open Source
You may want to first read through the simputer website and understand their licences. There are separate licences for software, hardware and hardware specs. Also read the faq, and their lawyer's translation into english of the licence.
Philip