On 10/24/05, trixter aka Bret McDanel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 23:57 -0400, Leif Madsen wrote: > > On 10/20/05, Darrick Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any reason why the book wasn't released as a single pdf rather > > > than the individual chapter pdf's? Using pdftk, I merged the pdfs back > > > into a single document (11mb), then zipped it back up. Is there any > > > restriction that would prevent me from mirroring this as a complete pdf > > > rather than individual pdfs? > > > > Hrmmm... that is a good question, because I guess technically you're > > not changing it. However, for now, lets just leave it as be. Perhaps > > tomorrow I will speak with Jared and the people providing the mirrors > > and ask them to update the file with the PDF after I have merged it. > > As it is under the creative commons license it would be those terms that > would limit what you can and cannot do. > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode > You are free to make derivative works, however it requires you to > release under the creative commons license any such works. So whether > repackaging it is deemed to be a derrative work or not you are free to > do that. If its not deemed a derrative work then there wouldnt be a > problem either. > > Repackaging shouldnt really be covered as derrative work anyway because > it doesnt change the content which is what is protected, not the > packaging method. So long as the content is 100% the same you dont have > to do anything, but if you do change the content (adding, removing, > correcting, etc) then you have to rerelease it as creative commons, > which it sounds like you wanted to keep it the same anyway so that isnt > an issue.
The problem here is that you CAN'T make derivitive works. I think you have the wrong license (however I can't verify since I can't get to the Creative Commons website right now). There is no derivitive works allowed of the book (and no commercial works either). However, I do agree that repackaging it as a single PDF probably doesn't constitute a change, and thus is fine as long as the original work is unaltered 100%. Either way, I'm going to go and spend a few minutes now and repackage the PDF for y'all :) -- Leif Madsen - http://www.leifmadsen.com http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
