Thank you very much, zentara for announcing this book.

As the main author of this book, I am a bit surprised, though, that the chosen license should be qualified as restricted: with the license I chose, I give the reader the right to read, redistribute and even modify, translate or adapt the content of the book. Pretty open, isn't it?

The only restrictions are:

- It should not be done for commercial purpose (remember the book is published by O'Reilly, a commercial company which has invested quite a bit of money to publish this book, they understandably don't want a competitor to try to sell it),

- It should have proper attribution (here, it's basically me saying that if you use my text and change it, you can do that if you want, fine, but please still mention it is derived from my work),

- The derived work should have the same license (this is really a legal formula to keep the two other restrictions valid).

I have devoted almost every evening and most of the weekends of about one year of my life writing this book as a service to the community. I am granting anyone the right to distribute and even modify my work; asking for a proper attribution and a similar license for anyone reusing my work does not appear to be excessive restriction.

Back to the content, let me just say that it is really a book to teach programming using Perl 6, rather than a book to teach Perl 6.

I hope that many monks will enjoy reading it. You can all get an e-version for free, don't hesitate, download it and read it.

And please buy the paper version if you think it is worth it. Remember I did not do any crowdfunding campaign, did not get any grant and did not ask for any money before doing it; the only compensation I'll ever get for this hard work is a relatively small percentage of the sales.

In reply to Re: Free Perl6 book by Laurent_R
in thread Free Perl6 book by zentara

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