On 10/15/05, Ronald Wiplinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it has a copyright? May it distributed via Internet that way? > Asterisk is still under development. Which Asterisk version is it good for?
Yes, the copyright lies with O'Reilly Media. It may be distributed onthe Internet, as long as you follow the terms from the license. Here is a summary of the license we chose to release the book under: (available in full from http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 You are free: * to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. * For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. * Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Let me explain the reasons briefly the Noncommercial and No Derivitive Works portions. The reason for the restrictions for the Noncommercial is obviously because we don't want people distributing the book along with a product they are selling/creating and saying they have included documentation. And of course because O'Reilly wants to sell books (and so do the authors of course so that we may continue to create documentation -- although this is a lesser fact for us, we are certainly not getting rich from this, it was a labour of love and for the community). The No Derivitive Works forbids the changing of the document and distributing it, which includes translations. This is because O'Reilly would like to have the first opportunity at having the works translated for distribution to their various centre's and such, which we felt was a fair request. Yes, Asterisk is constantly under development; its a moving target. However, since the new upcoming version 1.2.x of Asterisk is such a strong improvement over the 1.0.x series of book, then we decided it was in the best interest of everyone (for O'Reilly in terms of sales, for the community so they have solid documentation for the newest upcoming version, and for us so we wouldn't get flamed :)) Since 1.2 has not yet been released, there may be some slight differences, however, most should be minimal as many of the major functionalities have already been addressed while we were writing the book (we worked very closely with the developers in the community to be sure that we were as accurate as possible). Many of the changes that are currently going into the tree involve stabalizing and streamlining the code. So to answer your question, the book is written for the current CVS HEAD and upcoming 1.2.x. version of Asterisk. Thanks! -- Leif Madsen - http://www.leifmadsen.com http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Doc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-doc
