On 04/29/2017 08:18 PM, Kurt Jacobson wrote: > Looks like they publish a whole series of these type of books, all for free > software? > https://www.bookdepository.com/publishers/Samurai-Media-Limited > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:09 PM, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04/29/2017 08:27 PM, andy pugh wrote: >>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/191916464359 >>> >>> This bothers me. >>> >> Hmmm, I just had an idea! Ask the seller this question : >> "Did you know you can download this free at >> linuxcnc.org/<link path>?" >> >> That text will appear at the bottom of the eBay ad in the >> questions box, and I don't think the seller can remove it. >> If we make that a regular occurrence, that might dry up this >> stuff.
I agree with Andy, that's weird. Our documentation is copyrighted by various people, and licensed GPLv2. I'm no lawyer, but i think it's probably ok legally to sell hardcopy of our documentation, as long as you make the source code available upon request. This is the same as Tormach selling binaries of their fork of our software, and making the source code available upon request. Samurai Media Limited seems to be John Richard Pepperrell: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04490974/officers It looks to me like that company publishes lots of pdfs from around the web: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/sml -- Sebastian Kuzminsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
