On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2008 07:57, Ron_1st wrote: > > The publisher wil not make it GPL if they can have financial profit > > of it when they sell the book. > > Does the publisher even own the copyright in this case? Rittinghouse used > a > vanity press, by the looks of the book a print-on-demand one, and they > often > don't. I would check my copy but it's still packed following my most > recent > move. If he'd used CafePress or Lulu I would feel safe saying they > absolutely don't own it, but as I recall he used a different one. > > At any rate, the biggest obstacle to wikifying the book was the fact that > we > don't have the original document. Even then it'd take a lot of work. > Benoit's original Gambas documentation was much shorter and it still took > me > weeks to get it into the original Gambas wiki.... which eventually fell > into > disrepair and disorganization, just as I think the one based on this book > eventually would. MediaWiki is a better wiki than TWiki was, but a book > needs > a fundamental organization to it. > > I think that if someone wants to proceed with this, you'll need to get in > touch with John -- or, if the worst has happened, with his estate. > I will ask the publisher about the status and if they don't have the rights and the original text I forget the whole thing. I am not going to pester John at the situation it is. I don't know him but feel sorry for him.
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