Re: How does licensing work for open source software(available on the internet) or books written

The whole point of someone writing a book is for them to express their opinion and show their research. Not copy others.

How would you feel if someone went over your scripts library that out of good will you share with others, and then tries to make money off of your work by blatantly copying it and selling it as their own?

Also, just because someone posts something on a blog, does not make it "open source" and automagically GPL licensed for you to use and sell as your own as you please. I'm not a lawyer, but I wouldn't be surprised to get sued if I did that. Again, I'm not a lawyer, but intellectual property is still intellectual property, whether it's published on a blog or not.

And the link you mention to the allfiles.zip archive, that is from Chris' book. So you're basically asking to "Let me just take all the work you put into writing your book, and sell it as my own".

But this isn't so much about "licensing" (copyright would be a better term) but about ethical standards, really.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:36 AM kunwar singh <krishsingh.111_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Listers,
> I have one question.
>
> I am thinking of writing a book/blog and because i have never done these
> before i have one question .
> *What are the licensing dos and donts when using or referencing work of
> others.*
>
> Lets say i write a blog/book and reference for e.g. exact testcase used in
> the below blog.
>
> https://antognini.ch/2019/04/vsql_cs_histograms-what-are-the-buckets-thresholds/
>
>
> Or is that a strict no-no? Does every piece of blog/book have to be
> written by myself or does it depend on the flexibility or license details
> put by the author of the referenced blog/blook?
>
> I plan put the reference details at the end of the blog/book.
>
> another example.
> i plan to use few of the scripts from the below:
> https://antognini.ch/downloads/top2/allfiles.zip
>
> Some of the blogs/book refer to http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
> What does it mean in simple terms. This is my first time so wondering and
> any inputs would be appreciated :)
>
> Apologies if this is a very basic qn, but none of my peers/seniors have
> written a book and i have great regard for community here , so though of
> checking.
>
> P.S. My above example is just one out of many i may use. I use many such
> on my day-to-day work
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Kunwar
>

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