On 27-Jan-08, at 8:24 PM, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > > Hi BOSUG, > > have finished majority of my book "Programming with KDE4" > It is now 400+ pages. It will grow a little more (More on this later) > > > Yup, it has a chapter on KDE4/Solaris ( see table of contents below) > > I need to select a license for the book
... > > I want it to be free as in opensource ; not free as in beer. > > I wanted to go in for GNU FDL, but that does not seem to suit me. I > have lots of code snippets from kdelibs/kdepimlibs. > Both those libs are under LGPL and IMHO GFDL and LGPL are _not_ > compatible. Have you looked at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/. I believe that source code is different from a book, and the licenses should be looked at differently. The 'Programming Ruby' (http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/) book is distributed along with most ruby binaries and has this license. The other aspect of it is commercial implications for the publisher, and more importantly -- you. Everyone would want to make money out of the good work that you have done. Also from what I've heard from other authors, the money for authors comes out of the consultancy that they get because of the book, and not the royalty from the book itself, unless the book is a super hit. Enough hints ;) -- Ketan Padegaonkar I blog... therefore I am... http://ketan.padegaonkar.name http://swtbot.org/ - a functional testing tool for SWT/Eclipse
