> > From: Manish Chakravarty > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:01:57 +0530 > Subject: Please suggest a license for my book : Programming with KDE4 Using > C++ > > > Hi ! > > I have finished majority of my book "Programming with KDE4" > It is now 400+ pages. It will grow a little more (More on this later) > > I need to select a license for the book > > I want to be able to: > 1) Let other people contribute/modify the book > 2) Let the book be distributable over the internet, freely > 3) I dont want people to pirate hard copies of the book ( if it ever gets > printed, that is :) ) > 4) I want to be able to sell the book as well. > > I want it to be free as in opensource ; not free as in beer.
check out lulu.com and you'll find a suitable license and other conditions met. license your book in two parts: the book-authoring under a cc-license, the code snippets under their respective licenses, mentioned wherever the code is published, and/or linked to the full license elsewhere in the book. hth regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Linux-india-general mailing list Linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general
