Re: Lua Cookbook

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Marc Balmer wrote:
>
> Just to make this clear:  I will *never* assign my coprights to anyone.
>  I am fine with giving away the right to publish or so, but the
> copyright should really be with the author.

I agree. There's no need to assign copyright to a publisher: just give
them a liberal copyright licence. Then you retain the vital ability to
re-licence the work to others.

Academics in my university have been instructed to remove copies of their
own work from their own websites because they assigned copyright to
publishers. I don't expect the Lua Cookbook people to be evil like many
academic publishers; I just mean to illustrate the importance of the
principle.

Tony.
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