I think the book is aleady done :-)

[John Hornbeck]

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 02:12 +0800, Chua Wen Kiat wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 18:18 +0100, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > let's not make too much out of the license problem right now. We are
> > working to fixing up the license on the ubuntu-site. When that is done
> > we can go and talk to the guy and *ask* why he licensed it like this.
> > It might be he just has not thought about it.
> > It is nice people write about Ubuntu and it is really quite nice.
> > Let's not flame him. If we can solve all this in a friendly way then
> > that is much preferable.
> > 
> > greets all from Barcelona,
> > 
> > AP
> > 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm the author of the guide. Just came across this thread.
> 
> What license problem am I facing? I seriously have no idea... Plz let me
> know before I caused myself any problems.
> 

The main problem people will have with your guide is that unless they
use the entire guide how it is, they cannot work with it.  It would be
nice to use what you have and add to it to create alot better docs for
Ubuntu.  We are currently working on a Ubuntu User Guide and it would be
nice to use alot of your work to help us, but as you do not want any of
it used unless all is used just how it is, we have to reinvent the
wheel.  The main thing with OpenSource and FreeSoftware is that people
can take pieces of works and add the pieces they like to their own work
so they do not have to start from scratch on something that has already
been done(I hope I said that right).  It would be nice if we could use
pieces of your guide into ours and mix our stuff in and than have great
docs when Hoary is released, than also you can use our stuff back and we
would have a great amount of docs to work with.  Please consider letting
us use pieces of your docs, and you will get credit for it, but we would
add alot and even change some things. Also remember that you can use our
docs with your stuff, but under your license right now you cannot mix
ours in with yours because ours is freely redistrubutable(Is that a
word).  Please consider.

John Hornbeck
Ubuntu Doc Team