discuss: My obsolete HOWTOs being sold as a book
Subject:
My obsolete HOWTOs being sold as a book
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
17 Feb 2001 22:21:02 -0000
Message-Id: <20010217125845.A310@davespc>
I wrote this on Sun Feb 4 22:17:11 2001 but due to my email
configuration it was bounced:
I recently found out that I'm a joint author of a book published in
Jan. 1999 that is still being sold. It's called "Linux Modem and
Serial Communications". The howtos it's based on are very obsolete
and people that buy such a book are being cheated.
Thus I now wish that I had not permitted free copying in my license.
Except that LDP requires that a license must permit free copying.
Also, most non-LDP mirror sites have stale versions of my howtos.
While it's wrong to give away stale versions, it's even worse to sell
stale versions and I think that a prohibition of this should be
permitted in a free license.
David Lawyer
