Hi Massimo,
On Mar 24, 5:03 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > I have the copyright on the book but I also have an understanding that > I would not give it away for free or it will go out of print. Creators > of other framework make their living by consulting. I make my living > in the academic. A published book is necessary to justify the time I > spent/spend on web2py. I do not make much money from it so that is not > an issue. Thanks for the clarification, Massimo. So my understanding is that it is *not* okay to copy and paste portions of the manual into the Wiki, with the exception of the source code examples (which can be freely copied). We should make sure to write this down in the Wiki. > I think one thing is the book (and I care about that for my > profession) and one think is the wiki (necessary to describe new > features and community involvement). I do not think they should be > merged. This is not final and I will give the issue some more thought. I'd be fine with this approach you suggest. It's not absolutely necessary to have a community-written book, especially since you're more than willing to write (and update) an official manual. And as Achipa says, it's easy enough for free lower-quality learning material to be available in tandem with higher-quality commercial learning material. My only concern with this scenario is with the Wiki's copyright. We haven't really specified which copyright the material on the Wiki should have, which implies that each piece is owned by the original author. This means that copying Wiki content into the official manual would require permission from all of the authors... That's rather awkward. Hence, it may be a good idea to consider releasing the Wiki under the Creative Commons Attribution license, that way the Wiki contents can be reused commercially and can be sold in a non-share- alike way. Of course, the current authors would have to agree to release their work under the new license, but since there isn't much work there yet this isn't a big issue... yet. --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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
