I'm not certain how much the publisher cares. Feel free to let me know if this has already been hashed over.
Excerpt from page 2 of the book: "All rights reserved. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the author, John W. Rittinghouse." Without diving into technicalities, I think that just about covers it. And trying to find a way around it will likely take more effort than just creating a new/original work from the community. I originally offered to assist with getting the dead-tree version of the book up-to-date without knowing Mr. Rittinghouse's personal concern that will likely prevent him from continuing work on the book. It was from that thought that the wiki idea was brought up by John (allbasic). I'm personally not very interested in wiki since wiki doesn't travel well on airplanes (I fly for a living) or to hotels with spotty internet access. I have a strong preference for paper. My offer still stands. I'd be willing to offer my time to help edit a [new] book for Gambas. I do a fair job at spell checking and some general grammar cleanup. This is my feeling: I think what may be best is not to attempt to use/revise/rehash this book out of respect for Mr. Rittinghouse, but perhaps to create a new book altogether (paper, electronic, whatever). I started creating some very basic documentation (based almost exclusively on gambasdoc.org/help) for my personal use, but what I really want--and probably what most everyone learning Gambas wants--is a lot of good examples. Respectfully, Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
