He’s electroencephalographically challenged, Jim.

CopyLeftRightThataWay

December 27, 2008 - 11:10am

The Adventure of Physics, 22nd edition, is an ebook in pdf format that is copyright © 2009 by Christoph Schiller and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Germany License, with the additional restriction that reproduction, distribution or use, in whole or in part, in any product or service, be it commercial or not, is not allowed without the written consent of the copyright owner.
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Okay, let’s follow this. Standard copyright says, “don’t copy this.” The CC license chosen says, “you may copy all or part of this for non-commercial use.” Then the addendum says, “you may not copy all or part of this, even for non-commercial use.”

So why did you include the CC license if you were just going to nullify it one sentence later?

Idiots.

Still, a free 1,600-page physics book is a free 1,600 page physics book. Grab one. Smiling

January 6, 2009 - 5:18pm
Franjo said

The answer is in the sentence that follows your quotation: “On the other hand, this physics ebook in pdf format is free for everybody to store, read or print for personal use, and to distribute electronically, but only in unmodified form and at no charge.” Reading helps much.

It seems you owe the author 500 Euro/Dollars. That is the usual fine for calling somebody “idiot”.

January 6, 2009 - 9:05pm
Adam Knight said

I included the entirety of the text at the time I made the comment. If that’s there now then he’s clearly realized the error of his ways and rectified the situation.

Idiot.

“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.” — “Charles II” Twelve Types – G. K. Chesterton

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