Hi, I have forgotten something, which I want to add in this mail now ;)
Ian Laurenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:54:54 +1300: > I am extremely disappointed with the way that this has been handled. > > To the best of my knowledge this was not discussed with the group in > advance. Are we a community or not? To me something like this should > have been discussed and agreed upon. As I said before, this has been discussed in this group. And yes, we are a community. But I think Linda and Jean have every right to put the books on Lulu (that is one reason, why we use licenses like GPL, CC or PDL.) It's just possible, to publish these books without notifying anyone, the only thing, they have to do, is to include the license-text and name the authors. And this has happened automatically, because Jean has used the documents from the authors-website. I think, it's very nice, that Jean wants to give the money, which is generated via these books, back to the community and spend it for something, the authors decide. She needn't to do this. There's no part in any of the used licenses, which tells her, that she has to ask the community what she can do with the money. > > While I acknowledge the hard work that Jean has put into these > documents they are the result of the collective hard work of all the > community and to me as such a unilateral decision by Jean was > inappropriate. She can do it. She don't need to ask here on the list. And IMHO, Jean put a lot of "her brains" into these books, she is author/co-author of many of these books. Why are you complaining? You can go and publish one of these chapters (or the whole book) yourself and you can try to make money with them. No one can stop you doing this. Sigrid
