Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?
- From: Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>
- To: Sindhu S <sindhu oxf gmail com>
- Cc: marketing-list gnome org, foundation-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Want to review a book about GNOME 3?
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:53:01 -0500
1. A development guide tells you how-to use many different FOSS
products with explanation on how they will work together to help
the reader create more free software.
That is a kind of manual. Any book that explains how to use
some software is a manual.
One kind of manual is a _reference manual_ which explain all the details
of each construct or command. But documentation to teach a beginner
the basic use of a program is a manual too.
My two cents is that going by the rule of free works and their
derivatives must also be free, the author should consider
releasing the book under a free license and to be fair to the
effort the author has put in, he should charge a fee for the
hardcopy/printed/paper edition.
If he releases the book under a free license, he can sell
copies, and we should encourage people to buy copies.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call
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