Re: Thoughts on Licences

On 2004-08-25 12:06:59 +0100 Noel Welsh <noelwelsh-/[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, I have the APress standard contract in front of me.

Does it say anything relevant?

> I'm trying to find people doing the same thing as us and
> see what decisions they have made.  So far:
>   http://perldesignpatterns.com/?HowToWrite

I don't see much reasoning for their decision there. Just looking at 
the decisions other make is not very useful to me: as far as I can 
tell, most books are published under licences granting the publisher 
the exclusive right to do almost anything with all of the work.

> If anyone can find additional resources I'd love to see
> them.

http://www.network-theory.co.uk/ is another publisher.

> APress is down at the moment so I can't check what licences
> they have published books under.

In March, you posted that APress seem OK with publishing LGPL'd works. 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7618581

-- 
MJR/slef    My Opinion Only and not of any group I know
http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing
Please email about: BT alternative for line rental+DSL;
Education on SMEs+EU FP6; office filing that works fast



-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media
100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33
Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift.
http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285