Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 19:41 schrieb Paul Dumais: > Thanks, everyone for your comments. I'm not sure how commited I am to > doing this, but I might as well take the rock soup approach. A rock > soup is better than no soup, and everyone else can add their favorite > ingredients to make it into something tasty.
I'm sure that I'll also try to give some ingredients for the soup! > I like the latex approch. There is a latex to html converter that the > python website documentation uses (at least some of it). That means we > could just do a latex to pdf and a latex to html conversion say once > each month after doing an svn up. I also think that pure Latex would be the best choice. It's convertible into a lot different formats and can be edited just using a simple text editor. > Should I get svn commit permission on the zope.org site and do this on > a branch there? Since we need to start from scratch there is nothing to branch. ;-) I think Jim Fulton is responsible for giving checkin permission to the Zope repository. > I presume the ZPL liscense would apply in this case. > Would it be better to set up a repository somewhere else and use a > different liscence (GPL, LGPL, ...)? I'm not too savy with the > different liscenses out there. I'm happy as long as anyone is free to > make derivative works without getting permission. > > On 2/14/06, Stephan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 February 2006 12:15, Paul Dumais wrote: > > > Do we start from scratch? > > > > I think you have to, because both current books have licenses that do not > > allow any other commercial use. > > > > > Can we use any of the material from Stephan > > > or Phillip's books? The Zope 3 Developer's Handbook by Stephan Richter > > > doesn't seem to have any copywrite notice on it (on line pdf version > > > at least). Can someone tell me what are the restrictions on it's use? > > > > That is not true. The online, PDF and paper version all have an appendix > > with the license of the book. See: > > > > http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/Zope3Boo > >k/CreativeCommonsAttributionNoDerivsNonCommercialLicense > > > > > What form should it take? Should we make it a latex file and check-in > > > changes via svn? Should it be a simple wiki? > > > > I would urge you to use latex or some other advanced format. ReST and > > other low-tech solutions will not provide you the flexibility you need to > > develop a printable book. > > > > > What liscense if any should the document have? How do anonymous/ > > > community users contribute and fix errors? > > > > If it is a community book, then make it the most open CC license you > > possibly can. > http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users
