> We *will not* tolerate the use of official Django forums to support > the illegal distribution of copyrighted work -- especially when you're > violating the copyright of members of this community. > > The Django Book is available for free online [1]. However, the PDF is > NOT freely distributable. > > You have been warned. If you make another attempt to use a Django > forum for the purposes of illegally distributing copyrighted work, you > will be banned from posting to this list. > > [1] http://djangobook.com
I'm not trying to defend the potentially-illegal distribution of the material. However, after reading this response, I took a quick look at the Django Book's license. It seems it's covered under two separate licensing schemes, both shown on this page: http://www.djangobook.com/license/ The first part is the initial copyright at the top of the page. It seems to indicate that you cannot redistribute this material without written consent. Clear enough. However, scroll down a bit -- or even looking at the link from the main page -- it appears to be covered under the GNU Free Documentation License. And I quote: "to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially." So, does this fall under the GNU Documentation License or the author's Copyright block? They cannot work together (incompatible) unless it is dual licensed -- in which case, I believe alvaroalo would have been well within his rights to make this slight modification and distribution effort. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
