Didn't we have the same problem before, also with a book in German IIRC? Although in that case the author did not even ask for permission (I think).
Might be good to revisit what was dicussed then looking at the mailing list archives. --- Friedhelm Betz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 05 June 2003 20:02, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > Given that Andreas was unable to post his message > following this thread, > > and instead he opened several new threads, which > we would be unable to > > join, I am doing what I have asked him to do: "use > reply all". > > > > Here is the message he tried to send to us: > > | I've written a very practical PHP book, that > introduces that great > > | script language, PHP. That part of the book I've > writte is about 250 > > | Pages and that part of the book containing the > reference (funktion > > | List) is about 200 Pages. But I wouldn't like to > publish the whole > > | function list. That what I would like to publish > is : the reference > > | of: > > | 1. Array Functions > > | 2. Date Functions > > | 3. Filefunctions I/O Functions > > | 4. Math Functions > > | 5. MySQL Functions > > | 6. Stringfunctions > > | 7. Var. Functions > > | 8. Session Handling > > | 9. Grafik Functions GD Modul > > | 10. Reg Ex > > | 11 Errorhandling > > | 12 Functionhandling > > | > > | And I only would like to publish the German > version not the English > > | Version !!! > > | Could I do that ? > > > > My question on what he would like to repusblish is > only implicitly > > answered, he said nothing about the content he > would like to republish, > > but as it seems to me half of the book would be > from the German PHP > > manual (200 pages), so it won't be just a list, as > he suggested but a > > full documentation. > > > > Now the question is what the English authors and > the German translators > > think about a book containing part of the manual > as one half of the > > content of it. > > As one of the German translators (don't know about > other people opinions): > First of all: the German trans might be particular > outdated and therefore > plain misleading/wrong. Publishing in a printed book > seems not a good idea to > me, pointing to the online docs (and the > downloadable versions) is always > possible. > Near 50 % of a book is a huge amount, and I > personally have some objections > against. I might be wrong, but Andreas never > contributed to the German trans > and selling half a book based on the work of others > is not smart;-) > So I am -1 on this. > Anyway, contributing to the German trans is always > welcome. > > Friedhelm > > > > > -- > PHP Documentation Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com -- PHP Documentation Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
