From: David Alan Black Date: 2002-05-17T20:23:11+09:00 Subject: Re: ANN: Programmierung in Ruby On Fri, 17 May 2002, Juergen Katins wrote: > Dave Thomas wrote in message ... > > > > I want to see more people do what we're doing and opening up their > > Ruby books. However, this relies on the good will of publishers. > > Publishers are in the IP business, and live by copyright laws and > > licenses. If they get the impression that open licenses are not > > respected by the communities they're trying to serve, then I can see > > that Programming Ruby may well be the last OPL book released by > > Addison Wesley, and that would be a shame. > > > I would suggest you encourage AWL to use the license options provided > by the OPL next time. What's the point of using options, when people are going to ignore the basic text of the license to begin with? (See [ruby-talk:40527].) David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav