Re: Book Chapter

[Rodrigo Moya Piernavieja <rmoya tsai es>]

Brian Jepson wrote:
> 
> Thanks to all who helped with the review of the GNOME chapter I posted
> recently.  I have some good news about this chapter: it's traditional for
> new books to have at least one chapter published on a web site for people
> to review it and get an idea of whether they like the book.  I spoke with
> my editor about taking this one step further, and she has gotten the OK
> for me to release the GNOME chapter under an open source license.
> 
> It was originally written using StarOffice, and was ultimately converted
> into Microsoft Word format.  I guess the best thing to do now is turn it
> into DocBook format, right?  I've never worked with DocBook before, but I
> suspect it won't be that hard to do.
> 
I don't think you'll have any problem. You can have a look at the
doc/C/gnome-db.sgml file in gnome-db for a simple example (it does not
use too many features, but it's got the basic things). There is a good
tutorial somewhere (I don't remember where I did get it, so if you can't
find it at developer.gnome.org or www.cygnus.com, tell me and I'll send
it to you).

> I haven't thought about which license to use - for convenience and
> clarity, I told my editor that I wanted to release it under something that
> complies with the open source definition, and this is what I got the OK
> for.  Is there any license in particular that would make it easier for
> people to use this chapter?  I tried poking around www.fsf.org to see if
> there was a recommended license for documentation, but I couldn't find it
> (I'm a little rushed this morning, so I'll look again when I have more
> time).
> 
Also look at developer.gnome.org for the Havoc Pennington book about
GTK/GNOME programming, it may give you some ideas about licensing.

Cheers