Hi! Here are my thoughts about the matter.
On Thursday 06 August 2009 10:16:24 Fayland Lam wrote: > I'm writing a free perl book in Chinese > http://github.com/fayland/chinese-perl-book/tree/master Well, first of all - thanks for your effort. We could always use more online books about Perl. Just a note - Catalyst.pod reads: {{{{{{{{{{{ =head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. }}}}}}}}}}} Are you sure you want to use these licensing terms? See: * http://perlbuzz.com/2009/07/help-end-licensing-under-same-terms-as-perl- itself.html (Short URL: http://xrl.us/be8pep ) I should also note that for a book with code samples, then a permissive open- source license such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license (or maybe even dual licensed with http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ ) would be more suitable, because one can expect people to copy-and-paste code into their programs. > and I'm wondering if it's OK to upload it to CPAN since it's popular and > easy to share with others. I saw some texts on CPAN: * http://search.cpan.org/dist/Object-PerlDesignPatterns/ * http://search.cpan.org/dist/Catalyst-Manual/ * http://search.cpan.org/dist/Religion-Islam-Quran/ If you have many L<....> links to modules, etc. then putting it there may be a good idea. How big do you expect the book to get? You may also opt to host it on http://perl-begin.org/ or wherever. Contact me if you're interested. > if it's OK, which namespace is suit for the book? Book::? Acme::Book::? > or POD::Book::? > Acme::Book is not suitable because this is not a joke module. POD::Book may imply that it has something to do with POD processing, which it doesn't as it is only written in POD. Maybe "Book::" or "Perl::Book". Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Parody on "The Fountainhead" - http://xrl.us/bjria God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read.
