Yes, this is a good idea. any objections?
On Mar 25, 7:08 am, Jonathan B <jonathan.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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