A lot of free software documentation is released under free licenses these days. Was this? Or maybe a non-free but still liberal license like CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial or something?
(Might be good to tweak the Slashdot book review guidelines to make stating the license a standard part of these reviews...)
"All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher."
Incidentally - it is also interesting to point out that it is printed and bound in China. By adequately payed and humanely treated Chinese workers. Probably. Maybe.
It was written and printed to be sold for MONEY. Not because someone woke up one morning and said to themselves "My-my... world could sure use a book about that free piece of software, and who better than me to write it - ME an Expert in writing such books.".
And if you want something sold for money, by people who sell such things - you go with the most common copyright. If you want to sell the book yourself or let your friends sell it for you - you go with whichever license you like.
What is the book's license? (Score:2)
A lot of free software documentation is released under free licenses these days. Was this? Or maybe a non-free but still liberal license like CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial or something?
(Might be good to tweak the Slashdot book review guidelines to make stating the license a standard part of these reviews...)
LOL-Ha-Ha! (Score:2)
Good one.
Nope... It is ye good olde:
Even the "downloadable sample chapter" [apress.com]
Incidentally - it is also interesting to point out that it is printed and bound in China.
By adequately payed and humanely treated Chinese workers. Probably. Maybe.
It was written and printed to be sold for MONEY.
Not because someone woke up one morning and said to themselves "My-my... world could sure use a book about that free piece of software, and who better than me to write it - ME an Expert in writing such books.".
And if you want something sold for money, by people who sell such things - you go with the most common copyright.
If you want to sell the book yourself or let your friends sell it for you - you go with whichever license you like.