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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:44:33 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com>
Cc:        weili@mappi.helsinki.fi, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD book
Message-ID:  <20010220204433.G22007@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010220085237.A2349@guinness.osdn.com>; from mij@osdn.com on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:52:38AM -0500
References:  <982676215.3a9272f71ae86@www1.helsinki.fi> <20010220085237.A2349@guinness.osdn.com>

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On Tuesday, 20 February 2001 at  8:52:38 -0500, Jim Mock wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 at 15:36:55 +0200, weili@mappi.helsinki.fi wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
>> One FreeBSD book named "Complete FreeBSD" (in Chinese) is on-line
>> (with all the chapters), maybe you'd like to put a link for it. The
>> address is as follows:
>
> Uh, the Complete FreeBSD is not an open source book, and should not be
> translated and put online without the author's permission (which I doubt
> he'd give, since he'd lose income).

That depends on the conditions.  I have already spoken with some
Chinese publishers, but I have not given any permission to any of
them.

>> http://tech.sina.com.cn/focus/FreeBSD/1999-11-3/64.shtml
>
> You might want to have these people contact Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
> (the author of the book) and attempt to obtain permission to
> redistribute it like that..

This is a reasonable approach.  I'd be very interested if somebody
could take a look at the book and decide if it is any good.

Greg
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