On Friday 02 July 2004 4:20 pm, Neeraj Kumar wrote: > No, I don't think it is illegal. Firstly, because it is posted on web > without restrictions -it is not difficult to restrict access if it was > only meant for selected people. Secondly, this is not the only link > where you can find Steven's stated book online without restriction- > http://leda.ttt.bme.hu/~cinkler/NSHT/doc/Stevens_TCPIP_illustrated_vol1.pdf
1. The copies are definitely illegal. There are plenty of sites around the world which will provide you such "bookz". Just search for the term bookz and you will get plenty of such stuff. 2. Different books have different copyrights and other applicable restrictions. The Linux Kernel Driver was published under FDL and its source is ths available. This doesnt mean that all books of oreilly are free to publish on the web. 3. Providing links to such copies is similar to providing links to "illegally copied" software in various warez caches. Or similar to provide links to free illegally copied mp3s. You can now make out the analogy, cant you? If you think it is not ok to post links to illegal mp3s, but ok to post links to such books .. stop .. and think again. 4. Providing such links to the list is similar to condoning such activities and bring bad reputation to the list. So please desist. Linux is not just about free software, it is also about rights to software among other things. IF you want others to respect licences like GPL, then be prepared to respect other licences, proprietary or not. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip (at) puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Work: http://www.puroga.com Home: http://www.sandipb.net GPG: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
