O'Reilly has changed the copyright after the print version of the
Definitive Guide had been published:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/web/news/docbooklic_0901.html
Katharina
Tobias Reif wrote:
> Yann wrote:
>
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>> I'm mailing you because i just read the copyright on
>> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/dbcpyright.html . I never used
>> docbook before because I thought that the reference book was NOT free,
>> as i read it at
>> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/rights.html.
>>
>> The (c) on oreilly.com says, we are NOT allowed to redistribute the
>> document; whereas, the (c) on docbook.org says the book is under FDL,
>> wich
>> would allow me to modify and redistribute it, without the previous
>> permission of oreilly.
>>
>> Which is the correct one? Can I redistribute the oreilly reference book,
>> or not? I don't really anderstand why there are two licenses... is this a
>> mistake?
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> IANAL, but I would think that the oreilly.com license page can not
> revoke rights that the docbook.org license page clearly grants to you.
>
> I agree with you that the two pages should state the same.
>
> Tobi
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