About

This page hosts GFDL/OPL books that I have converted into rocketbook format and made available for you to use. You may download them, modify them, trade them, distribute them yourself, eat them, or step on them. In short, you are free to do whatever you like with them with one exception: if you give this to anyone else, you have to allow them the same freedoms. Many of these books are available in quality paperback dead tree editions, if you’d like that. Just follow the given links back to the original site and follow the directions there. Many are published by O’Reilly, probably the most respected name in the technology publishing biz. So share and enjoy. Feel free to mail me with any questions or comments. Have a good day.

Recent Changes

1. [2005-11-04] Created “Producing Open Source Software”

Why I can do this

• AKA Knock knock Who’s there? The FBI.

All the books here are released under one of the following licenses. Because of this, they may be made available to you in any format I choose. Not only is this legal, it’s exactly what the author wants. So read these with a happy heart – you’re making the author happy!

• The GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) – This is the GNU General Public License for documents. This means that you (or I) am free to modify the content how I wish and distribute it, as long as you (I) allow you to do the same. That’s the summary. You really should read it and become more familiar with it. This is why I can offer these eBooks to you.
• Open Publication License – Similar to the GFDL (but don’t tell either of them that I said that). Seems a little less complete, in my opinion. You should read this too.
• Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) – The New Hotness, to use a phrase. Very easy to use, very popular.
• Rocket Book (http://www.rca.com/demo/REB1100/1,2622,PI45798-CI700093,00.html) (flash demo) – A file format that is understood mainly by handheld ‘eBook’ devices. These are binary files that are not human-readable by themselves.
• rbmake (http://rbmake.sf.net) – A free, open source program for Unix and Windows that can create rocket book files. ==