Re: Lua Cookbook

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Thursday 06 January 2011 01:54:31 Marc Balmer wrote:
> Am 06.01.11 07:08, schrieb Alexander Gladysh:
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 09:19, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Yes, free and online, that is correct. (That does not mean that it can
> >>> coexist with paid printed version as it is with ProGit, but, I
> >>> imagine, that to make printed and paid version possible, we would need
> >>> to overcome a lot of legal hassle.)
> >>
> >> How about simply asking all contributes to agree with CC-BY 3.0?
> >> (without SA and NC)
> >> This would open the way for any editor able to convince a publisher to
> >> print it.
> >
> > That is the tempting idea.
> >
> > However, I'm afraid of the angst that can arise among the contributors
> > if someone manages to publish the book and pocket the money.
> >
> > Prospective contributors, please say your opinion.
> 
> Personally, I want to keep all rights on my texts, but give permission
> to use them for this specific purpose, namely the Lua Cookbook, in
> electroniic or other forms.
> 
> Rationale behind this is that I want to be able to use _my_ texts for
> other purposes as well, if I want to (e.g. on my blog, on my website,
> maybe even as part of a real book).

Marc has a point. I'm going to be writing a Lua section for 
Troubleshooters.Com. It won't be a cookbook type thing, but then again, I 
don't want to get in a position where I'm worried about what I put on 
Troubleshooters.Com.

StevET

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