discuss: Securing and Optimizing Linux
Subject:
Re: Securing and Optimizing Linux
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
7 Oct 2001 02:52:35 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110061951500.5265-100000@commandprompt.com>
Hello,
Of course, which is why we have written a completely new TOC and will not
use the previous book as reference.
J
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, David Lawyer wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:57:13PM -0700, Poet/Joshua Drake wrote:
>> >Since the license doesn't allow modification, you can't just rewrite it.
>>
>> Just FYI, I checked with my Lawyers on this. Yes we can rewrite it. It is
>> not words that is copyrighted. It is the expression. Anyway, see my
>> previous email about the title.
>
>The expression is expressed in words, so you can't just copy the words
>or paraphrase the sentences. You can't copy the organization and
>table of contents, but must devise your own. So what you come up with
>is not really a rewrite but a new book on the topic. It's facts that
>are not copyrighted. While writing the new book you need to express
>the facts in a different way and with a different organization to
>them. If you just repeated the same facts in a different way, then
>that's probably a violation of copyright. You should come up with
>new facts and integrate them with the old facts.
>
>One dead giveaway that you've created a derived work is if you repeat an
>error in the original book, erroneously thinking that it's a fact.
>
> David Lawyer
>
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