Re: Updated Octave Book

[John Swensen]

I'm not sure about their policies on that.  I know that at least one of
their books, Linux Device Drivers Third Edition
http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/, is available under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/>.  This may be because
the authors have enough "clout" to mandate that of O'Reilly, but I'm not
sure.

As to the above mentioned book, I originally just read it in PDF form,
but in the end I bought it because there is something to be said for
having it in print.  I suppose I could have just printed it out, but I
have no problems paying someone for a lot of work they have done, when
they ask nicely ;)

- John

Soren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi,
>   I seem to remember reading some Stallman, where he talked about free
> documentation. I think he wrote (amongst other things) about O'Reilly
> books, and how he thought they where hurting software, because the
> documentation was not allowed (by O'Reilly) to be free. Do you know what
> the O'Reilly politics is when it comes to free documentation?
>
> Soren
>
> P.S. Just to be sure: I'm talking about free as in speech.
>
> ons, 21 06 2006 kl. 12:29 -0600, skrev John Swensen:
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>> JWE,
>> Have you ever thought about developing the Octave manual into an
>> O'Reilly book?  It seems like their "Science and Math" offerings are
>> somewhat limited.  Then again, maybe you don't have the time.  But it
>> seems like one of you core developers and longtime users could probably
>> get that proposal accepted.
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>> John Swensen
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