Re: [ANNOUNCE] "Practical mod_perl" book is released under Creative Commons license

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Stas Bekman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The complete "Practical mod_perl" book [1] is now available online 
> under the terms of the CreativeCommons [2] "Attribution Share-Alike 
> License" [3].

This is great!

> Attribution: The licensor permits others to copy, distribute, display, 
> and perform the work. In return, licensees must give the original 
> author credit.
>
> Share Alike: The licensor permits others to distribute derivative 
> works only under a license identical to the one that governs the 
> licensor's work.

So a Chinese translation is permitted I guess, yah!

> Thanks to all who have purchased our book so far. You can still get 
> the printed version from your favorite book store and it will 
> certainly make a nice "light" XMas present (hint, hint :).

Already got a copy when it was fresh out of the press :-) but didn't 
have enough time reading the complete book yet  - maybe one of new year 
resolutions is do that.

> [1] http://modperlbook.org/
> [2] http://creativecommons.org/
> [3] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
>
> Eric Cholet and Stas Bekman
>
> p.s. I've just put things together quickly, so if you find some 
> problems please let me know. I know the HTML is a bit broken, but 
> it'll be fixed soon. We also need to fix the copyright notices in the 
> HTML version of the book.
>
I think the important bits missing is the license RDF segments in the 
site and html book pages. The RDF helps the creative commons search 
engine[1] to index the site, the segment is something like the following:

<!--

<rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/";
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<Work rdf:about="">
   <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" />
   <license rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" />
</Work>

<License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction" />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution" />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice" />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution" />
   <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks" />
   <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/ShareAlike" />
</License>

</rdf:RDF>

-->

[1] http://search.creativecommons.org/

Cheers,

Yining

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