O Luns, 25 de Agosto de 2003 ás 13:35:21 +0900, Fedor Zuev escribía: > Documentation in not a software. There is no any one-way > transformation from the source to the binary. All problems with > distribution and modification of documents is a legal, not technical > problems.
That doesn't matter. To make a derivative of some program, you would normally need some human-readable source code. To make a derivative of a manual (for example, a translation or a summary), you only need the text. > At the very least, if you can read the document, you always, > technically, can OCR it. An experience shows, that, if you should > not care about legal requirements (because you has the right from > license, you OCR public domain or, simply, you do not care about a > law), it takes no more than 24-48 man\hours to completely OCR a > large 500-700pages book. And there always will bee volunteers to do > that. What are you trying to rebute from my "clause" with it? It is more or less my reasoning: you can translate the book having only a hardcopy of it. Well, it is even standard practice. If you want to actually modify it -- well, you may either OCR it, or you may ask the publisher for a modifiable soft copy of the book. -- Tarrío (Compostela)
