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New Debian book coming out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the debian-the-novel dept.

El Jefe writes "Just saw on the Debian news site that a new debian book is coming out, including a CD. The whole thing will be GPL'd, btw. "

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  1. Further Details: Yes, it's GPL'd! by John+Goerzen · · Score: 4
    We are extremely pleased to have had this opportunity to work with such a major publishing firm (MCP/New Riders) on a project of such importance with a Free license such as this. Our ideals are indeed spreading, and this can only be a Good Thing.

    I also want to say a big thank-you to New Riders Publishing for their extremely friendly stance on this book with regard to the Free Software movement. The book is licensed entirely under the GPL; such is specified not only in the book also by contract. Ossama and I will be publishing the LaTeX and EPS sources as well as a HTML version online within a week or two -- possibly sooner, depending on how the logistics are worked out.

    The copyright on the book is assigned to Software in the Public Interest, Debian's parent organization.

    There seem to be some rather strange comments in this area from people that do not quite understand the GPL. The entire source code will be available online; GPL does not require the source code to be available on CD-ROM. Yes, this does mean LaTeX and EPS files.

    A portion of the sale of each book will go to the FSF, and Mr. Othman and myself will, of course, get some royalties as well.

    For those of you wishing to find more details, you may refer to my post to debian-devel.

    The book does include a CD-ROM of Debian. The book should be appearing in bookstores in about three weeks; online bookstores like Amazon, B&N, and Borders should be accepting pre-orders already for those interested.

    Thanks, John Goerzen