On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 04:21:49PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > ... I managed to obtain another version of their "notes" for the book > redistribution, following this notes the answer to Thomas' question is: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:42:46PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Can someone take all and only the O'Reilly books from the Debian > > distribution, and print them, and sell them (as an aggregate) to > > whoever they want? > > Yes. > > And these are the new "notes" that O'Reilly wants to be present in the > debian package of the book. > > =========================== > This document is the official (1.0) electronic version of the book > "D�veloppement d'applications avec Objective Caml", written by > Emmanuel Chailloux, Pascal Manoury, and Bruno Pagano, and published > by �ditions O'Reilly under ISBN 2-84177-121-0. Authors and publishers > are willing to make this document freely available on any medium, > provided that > > - the content of the official version is not modified without > expressed agreement of the authors or the publisher. > > - unofficial modifications expressely state so, while always > providing users with a live pointer to the corresponding official > version. > > - commercial products that include this document are themselves > compliant with the DSFG and don't consist of this document only.
This will probably be the problematic point about the whole of this. > - this very notice is made easily available to any user of the > document > =========================== > > Now, this new version seems to clarify a bounce of problems, starting > from the medium ranging to the aggregate problem. > > What you think about this now? > > Note that I will not upload in main unless we manage to reach an > agreement on this list; moreover, I know that decisions needs > discussions, but if we can't manage to reach an agreement I will upload > the book in non-free, continue the discussion on this list and with > O'Reilly and move the book to main if this will be the case when we > eventually reach an agreement. Yes, this would be the right think to do. > Note also that (YES, I'm repeating myself) I don't know if O'Reilly > fully understand the conseguence of the above notes, but these are not > what we are discussing for, we are discussing about compliance with > DFSG. If somebody wants to help O'Reilly in writing book license I can > forward the O'Reilly contact to him that can propose himself for a legal > consulence. > > I also have to say that Sven understood my points and explained them > correctly, probably with an english that is better than mine :) Well, not so sure about the english stuff. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
