Hi, as you may remember, I've mentioned a few a weeks ago, that the german publisher MITP is interested in publishing a german translation of our documentation (Apache 2.0).
I took quite some time until they got back to me after our last discussion. Well, they are still interested and are offering us one of the following options: 1. Translation is done by us; MITP does the spelling review; we provide the final text (in a format to be defined, e.g., XML); and MITP takes care of the rest (layout, printing, etc.). We get a certain amount of money for each sold copy of the book (probably as much as a normal author would get). 2. Like 1., but translation is sponsored by MITP, i.e., they are paying one or more individuals from the ASF for the translation; we still get a certain amount of money for each sold copy, but of course less than for option 1. 3. MITP takes care of everything; we still get some money for each sold copy, but just as much or even less than for option 2. We still get the source of the final text, but probably in Winword format only. For all three options the ASF will still own the copyright of the text, i.e., the right to publish the text will be non-exclusive. MITP has the following requirement: They are allowed to publish the book as the official Apache HTTP Server documentation (including use of the feather logo). BTW, the book will probably be a paperback with a price of about 35 EUR. My main question is know, do we want them to publish such a book and is their requirement acceptable? If the answer is yes, which option should/can we use? With options 1 and 2 the problem is, that we still need at least one to do the translation. I'm willing to help, but currently I don't have much time to spend of this. BTW, MITP has done a similar book for MySQL. See http://www.mitp.de/datenbanken/0888/0888.htm Any comments, anyone? ciao... -- Lars Eilebrecht - "Netscape is not a newsreader, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] - probable never shall be." (Tom Christiansen) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
