On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:56:50PM +0100, Abigail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:43:57PM -0600, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > > > Then it says "The Authors' public service intent is more than liberal > > than suggested by the License below ...", and goes on to explicitly > > mention web sites and academic usage. However, no mention is made of > > Free Software style distribution of source code. > > > > The license in the book reads: > > > > LICENSE: The Authors grant you a license for personal use only. This > > means that for strictly personal use you may copy and use the code and > > keep a backup or archival copy also. Any other uses, including > > without limitation, allowing the code or its output to be accessed, > > used, or available to others, are not permitted. > > > > > > This is _really_, _really_ bad. Not only are they explicitly limiting use > > of the code in the book, they are also limiting use of the _algorithms_. > > I don't think you quoted the part where they put a restriction on the > algorithms (which, AFAIK, are not copyrightable or patentable; they > fall in the same categories as ideas, which can't be copyrighted either).
Rich Bowen emailed them at one point and got an agreement from them that he could implement the algorithms and release the code freely, as long as he let them publish the code in the next version of the book. Last I heard, he was confirming that understanding with them. srl -- Shane R. Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] __o "In the end, you write the book that grabs you -\<, by the throat and demands to be written." - Salman Rushdie (*)/(*)
