Hi, On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:17:11 -0700 Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For some time I have downloaded the entired OpenBook folder of O'Reilly > > and packed if to my own use and my friends. > > > Since the O'Reilly License permit redistribution I now ask here, whether > > it is worth to file an ITP/RFS for those Documentations. > > A spot-check of a few of the books linked to under: > > http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ > > shows a depressing lack of any explicit license statements on many of > these works. I believe they'd have to be checked one-by-one to see if > they're even distributable in non-free. > > For example: > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/toc.html > > has the GFDL appended to the book, but I see no explicit statement that > the book is actually under the GFDL and, if so, what if any invariant > sections there are. Without that information, it's impossible to tell if > the package can go in main or non-free. I think you choose a bad example :) in the same book, preface page [0], one can read: | Appendix G is the copyright license under which this book is | published. and, "Appendix G" is linked to the GFDL. regards, [0] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/ch00.html -- Ricardo Mones http://people.debian.org/~mones «The time is right to make new friends.»
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