On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:44:44AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > However, I'm not really sure whether the DFSG should also be read as > requiring the free right to make and sell hardcopies. One could argue > either way from the text of the DFSG, I think. > > If the license you quoted were to apply to a piece of software, we > could probably assume such a permission, but I suppose it would need > to be more explicitly worded when it comes from a publishing house - I > doubt they would grant it, actually.
IOW, I have to explicitly ask O'Reilly editor permission to sell hardcopies obtained from the electronic version, right? Supposing that they don't want this, which is probably, have I to put the book in non-free? (I have not clear the parallelism between documentation and software: I know that if the author inhibit a sw to be used commercially the sw must be put in non-free, but in this case I'm not sure). TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate student of Computer Science @ University of Bologna, Italy - Information wants to be Open -
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