[Kdeev-books] First cut - scripting chapter, dcop chapter and structure

[Jan Schumacher]

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On Sunday 31 August 2003 15:09, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> On Sonntag, 31. August 2003 14:53, Brad Hards wrote:
> > Is there money involved in this? Is it intended that the book will be
> > published? Where is the money coming from, and where is it going to?
>
> Yes, there will be money involved as soon as the book gets published by a
> publisher if the KDE e.V. makes the publication with a certain publisher by
> a contract (this is also the reason why the FDL is preferred to preserve
> the rights of the individual authors and the KDE e.V.).
>
> The money will come from the publisher (O'Reilly or whoever) and will go to
> the account of KDE e.V. to finance developer meetings and so forth. As KDE
> e.V. is a non-profit (read: unlike a not-for-profit) organization, it has
> to spend the money it owns on a balance for the needs of the KDE project.
> Therefore this book (or books) will also help to finance developer meetings
> and infrastructure for KDE Development.

How so? Why would a publisher have to pay for the rights to publish the book? 
If you plan to release it under either the GFDL or the GPL, the publisher is 
granted that right by the license. The only difference the GFDL might make is 
the condition to preserve invariant sections and cover texts and some other 
restricions.

> I'm more than willing to inform anyone about the reasons to have KDE e.V.
> involved; but the goal of writing the book is that anyone can participate
> just like on the KDE sourcecode as well.

Any copyleft license would ensure that without any copyright assignments.

> It is just a more convenient way
> to have KDE e.V. publish the books as that will serve KDE as a whole
> anyway.

Why will it serve KDE more if KDE e.V. had the copyrights? If the license is 
copyleft, they can get anyone to publish the book if they so choose.

> We could also have any individual have the copyright with granting the KDE
> e.V. the right to publish the documents, modified or unmodified, according
> to the needs of the KDE e.V. If someone has some experience with such a
> procedure, please show up :-)  We could also ask at the GNU project/FSF how
> to deal with that procedure; they probably have some experience there.

It is not necessary at all to give KDE e.V. any special rights at all, if the 
license of the book is reasonably free. In my earlier mail I already 
mentioned that I'd prefer the GPL of the GFDL, but both will assure that 
anyone is allowed to publish the book.

Regards
Jan
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