On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Jonathan B <jonathan.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mar 17, 3:17 pm, Baron <richar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > that is very unfortunate. > > The Django project is able to sell their book and put it online so why > > can't web2py? > > I'm not familiar with the details of Django's project, but most likely > their publisher allowed them to keep their own copyright, so that they > could distribute their book however they wished. > > You *can* copy the web2py manual, *but* you will need to re-write the > text into your own words. I seem to remember that Massimo wrote that > the code examples can be freely copied verbatim (confirmation?), so > it's possible that he kept the copyright for those as part of his > agreement with the publisher. I would stay away from this kind of posting. At worst, you are presuming a legal position on how to take copyrighted material without consequences. The only ethical position is to ask permission - regardless. I do remember that Massimo said that reproducing code examples is fair (I will leave it to him to correct). Regardless, it's best to put energy on forward motion. Massimo has copyright. Massimo also has a business relationship with the publisher. We do not need to be privy to that. All we need to know is that it is not an open book, and anything on the existing book requires permission. > > --Jonathan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
