From: David Alan Black Date: 2001-02-22T07:42:48+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:11267] Re: Programming Ruby is now online On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Dave Thomas wrote: > Guillaume Cottenceau writes: > > > Dave Thomas writes: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > The book is released under an Open Publication license, so you're free > > > to make copies--see the file COPYING in the download for details. > > > > That's odd: I got the paper version of the book under my eyes right now, > > and it's printed: > > > > -=-=-- > > Copyright (c) 2001 by Addison-Wesley. > > > > All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, blah > > blah, without the written permission of the publisher. > > -=-=-- > > The book was printed before all this happened. I'm not a lawyer, but I > _think_ the copyright covers the form of representation, so that means > that the book can be copyrighted by AWL and then the download can have > a different copyright. I'm also not a lawyer -- I'm the child of lawyers, which is far worse :-) It would be hard to trace where a quotation/reproduction of text came from (i.e., book or Web document), unless it was a photocopy of the book. So my guess, pseudo-legalistically speaking, is that the OPL copyright actually is a form of "written permission of the publisher." David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav