Please exempt perl-begin.org from violating the CC-by-nc-sa licence by placing website advertisement about modern_perl_book HOT 3 CLOSED

Yes, it would be great if I could advertise on perl-begin.org!

from modern_perl_book.

The license already grants permission to link to Peteris's book from any mirrored copy of the Modern Perl book.

The license prohibits you from using the text of the book for commercial purposes. As long as no money exchanges hands, do what you like.

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Hi @chromatic ,

thanks for your response. I hope I got to the bottom of it. Having discussed this issue with a mutual friend of us (delving a little into philosophy and psychology and theology and stuff) I realised that what I would do is just stop mirroring the actual stuff on http://perl-begin.org/ and then just link to then (which I think can never ethically be prohibited - see http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/linking-policy/ ), and which it is possible the CC-by-nc-sa and all other CC-* licences grant under some of their Fair Use provisions. This will allow us to put the ads on the site.

If and when you wish to exempt Modern Perl from non-commercial use when it comes to web advertisements, either in my case, or in the general case, then I can mirror the book again for perl-begin.org's benefit. But otherwise, I no longer have any hard feelings.

Thanks for all your work on Modern Perl, and many other contributions to Perl, open source in general, open digital media, and World Domination™.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

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