[Gambas-user] Nice book of Gambas

[Kari Laine]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Rob <sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...> 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.

Kari