Yes, one of the first questions with Apress will be if they have some authoring collaboration environment or if they would accept a book written using the Apache collaboration model.
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 12:44, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:16 AM Delfi Ramirez <[email protected]> > wrote: > > ...I understand that each collaborator will arrange and make a cession, > written and signed, of his > > contribution to the community, and of course will have permission of > his/her contractor – if there > > is such a personal scenario – on behalf the community.... > > FWIW the Apache collaboration model enables this, so if the NetBeans > (P)PMC decides that the book content is just part of the NetBeans > project all these mechanisms are available. > > The unknown in this case is whether a book producer would agree to > print that book, as the Apache License allows anybody to do that (with > due credit etc. and respecting Apache trademarks) so they wouldn't be > protected against competition. > > And authors wouldn't make money (do they anyway?) but "just" get > reputation by having contributed to that effort. Which might be worth > more, actually, even from a business point of view ;-) > > -Bertrand > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
