[openbeos] Re: BeBook license

On 2003-06-16 at 16:48:33 [+0200], you wrote:
> That means that the copyright holder determines who may do what with the 
> BeBook. The copyright holder in this case is presumably Palm.
> 
> I could not find any mention in the BeBook itself what the terms of usage 
> (as determined by the copyright holder) are. Most likely, anyone is 
> allowed to read the BeBook, but not much else. This means you are 
> probably not allowed to distribute the BeBook, copy&paste (large 
> sections) from it, make changes to it, or even translate it. The license 
> agreement as displayed by the BeOS installer has more information about 
> this.
> 
> On the other hand, it is unlikely that Palm (or whomever is the copyright 
> holder) will ever cause you any trouble when you do take parts of the 
> BeBook documentation and use them for the OpenBeOS docs. (There is also 
> something called "fair use", which typically means that you can take 
> small bits from the original work and use them in your own work, without 
> acquiring permission first.)

There is already a project for OpenBeOS documentation with an XML-format. 
Sorry, I don't have a URL handy but I will be working on an HTML to XML 
parser (don't ask) for the translations.

Charlie

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