I spoke to Mel Gorman at Ottawa Linux Symposium, and got permisson to host HTML and PDF versions of his book under the Open Publication License. He sent me the book in both formats, along with the license terms, and I put them all up at http://kernel.org/doc/gorman/ The license essentially allows redistribution but not useful modification, which is why I didn't receive or post copies of the source files (in latex, I think). Mel would have to check with his publisher about modified copies of the actual book, but he's of the opinion it would be a herculean task to try to keep the book up to date anyway. (Mel himself doesn't have the time or energy to do it.) However, Mel is thinking of breaking it into a series of smaller articles, which would be easier to keep up to date. I put him in touch with Don Marti of LinuxWorld, who I also spoke to at OLS and who had expressed interest in publishing that kind of article. Don offers publication terms that allow the resulting articles to be used as open source documentation distributed with projects. Don sent Mel and myself the actual terms, which I put at http://kernel.org/doc/gorman/freelance.tex until I figure out what I want to do with them. (I'm not related to LinuxWorld and this isn't an endorsement, but a way to get documentation writers paid for writing documentation that the community can distribute is potentially useful...) Meanwhile, the book's up. I haven't had time to actually read it yet, let alone index any of its contents in with the rest of the heap. -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
