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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook: The Definitive Guide license change
DocBook users: [ I had to leave the O'Reilly Open Source Convention[1] early, so I never saw the official announcement and since no one else has posted it here, perhaps this is the official announcement. :-) In any event... ] Earlier this week, O'Reilly[2] announced that _DocBook: The Definitive Guide_[3] will be released under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.1[4]. This change in licensing will allow DocBook users world-wide to update, translate, and reuse the official reference documentation for DocBook. I will shortly be checking the XML sources for the book into the DocBook project[5] at SourceForge[6]. For more information about DocBook, please consult the official DocBook home page[7] at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)[8]. The most recent, alpha version of _DocBook: The Definitive Guide_ is available from the Definitive Guide home page[9]. This version does not reflect the change of licensing, but a new version that does will be published there soon. O'Reilly has indicated that it plans to keep this book in print and also to publish revised versions in the future. Future editions will also conform to the GNU FDL v1.1 or later. Be seeing you, norm [1] http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ [2] http://www.oreilly.com/ [3] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/ [4] http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/fdl.html [5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/ [6] http://sourceforge.net/ [7] http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ [8] http://www.oasis-open.org/ [9] http://docbook.org/tdg/html/ -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Many ideas grow better when http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | transplanted to another mind than Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | in the one where they sprang | up.--Oliver Wendell Holmes
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