Hi, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:24:54PM -0300, Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote: > Athanasios Kasampalis doesn't quote any text from the book, he just > named the file with the chapter-exercise.c format, so I think that > isn't a problem but he must keep that, never quote something.
We'd better ask licensing@ about the feasability of this project. > > We're likely to run into a lawsuit here, because there already exist a > > non-free, commercial book with the answers to the K&R manual, > > published by the same editor (in France, at least - > > http://worldcat.org/oclc/44175298). > > That's a fact, but I think that the solutions aren't always the same(I'm > sure about that) but how we can avoid this problem? that the programmer > doesn't use any "code" that looks like the code in that book? especially > because some questions has answer that aren't so special, I mean, you > can write the same code that other people. > > > Maybe it would be more useful to create a whole new set of exercices, > > with both questions and answers placed under a free license. > > That's a good option, I think that I'll ask him about that. That would avoid implicitely recommending non-free documentation. Should we accept the project, in fact? They are solutions from a non-free documentation - are they of interest for people who don't own it? Don't people have to get the book in order to use the solutions? > > Maybe a free implementation of the exercices answers is possible, but > > this needs to be done carefully on we need to discuss it with > > Athanasios Kasampalis beforehand. > > I've just got the email account of Brian Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie > I'll point the user the URL with the emails account and I'll made my own > contact with Dennis M. Ritchie. > > I'll send an email as soon as I got an answer from Dennis M. Ritchie. I don't think K and R are the copyright holders anymore. It's probably their publisher who own the copyright. I had a copy of this book, and I think the copyright page read that way. -- Sylvain
