in reply to Perl Monks Cookbook?

Perl is free(dom), to me. So all my stuff on this site is either copyleft, gpl or totally free, depending on which parts you are looking at. But in anycase I don't really care to much what you do with my stuff, I'm sure most others are like that (but not all).

Anyone willing to organize material for better access gets a high opinion in my book. But why not make this effort online (at least at first) and maybe completely integrated with perlmonks.org itself?

Ciao,
Gryn

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RE: Copyrights (Re: Perl Monks Cookbook?)
by KM (Priest) on Jul 28, 2000 at 22:09 UTC
    Unless I missed it, I didn't see anything on this site saying my words are suddenly free for all to copy and print and make money with. I certainly wouldn't allow that if I didn't get fair royalties (try splitting royalties between dozens of people) seeing as how I was not informed that my text on this site is public domain. I may be in a minority on this and not have the popular opinion, but vroom should have something on the site saying who owns what is posted here.

    Cheers,
    KM

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      I agree with you KM, unless it says otherwise it would be nice to know you own your own words. However, I don't know if you are in the minority or not (probably not). I was trying to say that for me, I only want the most basic rights (such as acknowledgement), but no monetary compensation for them.

      Anyway, it is a hairy issue, but at the very least it would seem possible to organize an online book that used perlmonks content and was available at perlmonks (all for free access of course). Not that this wouldn't require alot of effort.

      Cheers,
      Gryn

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more on online cookbook
by jlistf (Monk) on Jul 28, 2000 at 22:08 UTC
    i like the idea of some sort of cookbook. i also like the idea of trying it out online first. but a couple questions for you before you start doing anything: is this going to be any different from perlmonks organized Q and A section? or some extension of that. is there any reason to go to the online cookbook instead of perlmonks' sections? as for the book, thats a LOT of work. and requires a lot of organization - with publishers, with authors (in other words the whole pm community), etc. i don't know how feasible it would be.
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      There is a cookbook already. I think it would be better to have a search on this site which will search only good, correct answers and display them. Sort of like a 'perldoc -q' for this site. It may mean going back and deleting wrong answers to questions and only leaving correct ones.

      Cheers,
      KM

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