On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:

> Guillaume Cottenceau <gc / mandrakesoft.com> writes:
> 
> > Dave Thomas <Dave / PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > The book is released under an Open Publication license, so you're free 
> > > to make copies--see the file COPYING in the download for details.
> > 
> > That's odd: I got the paper version of the book under my eyes right now,
> > and it's printed:
> > 
> > -=-=--
> > Copyright (c) 2001 by Addison-Wesley.
> > 
> > All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, blah
> > blah, without the written permission of the publisher.
> > -=-=--
> 
> The book was printed before all this happened. I'm not a lawyer, but I 
> _think_ the copyright covers the form of representation, so that means 
> that the book can be copyrighted by AWL and then the download can have 
> a different copyright.


I'm also not a lawyer -- I'm the child of lawyers, which is far
worse :-)

It would be hard to trace where a quotation/reproduction of text came
from (i.e., book or Web document), unless it was a photocopy of the
book.  So my guess, pseudo-legalistically speaking, is that the OPL
copyright actually is a form of "written permission of the publisher."


David

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