Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-10 Thread john_perry_usm
Rob Having looked at your weblog, I'd be keen to see further information why you opt for GFDL over CC-BY-SA. Your weblog promises info on that, but I didn't see it in the summary you sent. john On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 1:33:14 PM UTC-5, Rob Beezer wrote: > > Dear John, > > Harald has sen

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-10 Thread john_perry_usm
Rob Harald has sent you some great info and advice on licenses. Its a > complicated > topic. > Indeed; I had no idea. > My advice would be to use Amazon's CreateSpace (easy) or Ingram's > Lightning > Source (professional) for print-on-demand copies. Right now we're using Lulu, which is

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-10 Thread john_perry_usm
> The bunny picture on page 195 is NC licensed. What is the agreement > between the copyright holder of that image and your plan regarding charging > royalties and splitting them? > As I wrote earlier, I had asked Kim Bui to grant us explicit permission to use the photo under a CC-BY-SA licen

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-09 Thread Rob Beezer
Dear John, Harald has sent you some great info and advice on licenses. Its a complicated topic. I personally like CC BY-SA, and I also frequently use the GFDL (GNU Free Documentation License) for longer works, even though it can complicate license compatibility. Here is an incomplete set o

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-09 Thread Rob Beezer
On 10/08/2016 09:43 PM, William Stein wrote: I just looked at a bunch of random parts of this and think it's great! You guys are just being too humble :-). Yes! Looking good. Thanks for making this available. Is this book the sort of thing that could legally also get converted to worksheet

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-09 Thread john_perry_usm
Harald If I understand correctly, the mistake I made was confusing "noncommercial" with "not-for-profit." Thank you for pointing out that very dumb mistake. I have to emphasize this mistake really is on me; I added NC right before uploading it, without thinking too much about it. That explains

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-09 Thread Harald Schilly
Now I also started to look at the content, first off On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 9:30:44 AM UTC+2, john_perry_usm wrote: > > (c1) The administration expresses support for, and interest in, open > textbooks. > well, as mentioned above, open textbooks definitions usually imply that they can

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-09 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 9:30:44 AM UTC+2, john_perry_usm wrote: > > (a) The tentative license is CC-BY-NC-SA, unless someone convinces us > that's a bad idea. > This is indeed a very bad idea, and even not really recommended by creative commons related people. The point is that it viol

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-09 Thread john_perry_usm
Thank you for the kind words, William. :-) > One request: can you syntax highlight the big blocks of input code? Somehow we didn't think of that. If you have handy, ready-to-plug-in tex code, I could try doing that very soon. Otherwise I'm absolutely swamped this semester, so it ain't gonna

Re: [sage-edu] New Sage-based textbook

2016-10-08 Thread William Stein
Hi, I just looked at a bunch of random parts of this and think it's great! You guys are just being too humble :-). One request: can you syntax highlight the big blocks of input code? I might have some helpful tex code for that (using lstlistings) if you want, which we use for SMC printing of sa