From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-02-22T09:28:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11270] Re: Programming Ruby is now online

Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:
>
>Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
>
> > Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:
[...]
> > 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.

IANAL also, but I do know it is possible for the copyright
owner to release the same work multiple times under
multiple copyright licenses.

If you wrote the book as a "work for hire" then you might
want to check with a lawyer as to whether you can release
under another license (the copyright having passed to the
publisher).  But I suspect that you still own the copyright
to the text (again I am not a lawyer) in which case you can
release any number of times.

Cheers,
Ben
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