14 janeiro 2003

CULTURAS IN VITRO
Steal This Book? A Publisher Is Making It Easy
Prentice Hall is publishing a line of computer books, the "Bruce Perens' Open Source Series." The first titles have already arrived for sale in bookstores like Barnes & Noble, and the electronic versions are expected to be available online soon afterward - and to be free.
All the books - a total of six are planned for this year - will be published not under a traditional copyright but under the Open Publication License, which was created in 1999 by David Wiley, an assistant professor at Utah State University. The license allows people to copy, modify and redistribute works.