"But the book is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, which means that the LaTeX source is also available" [LWN.net]

"But the book is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, which means that the LaTeX source is also available"

Posted Mar 3, 2012 14:14 UTC (Sat) by bros (subscriber, #75198)
In reply to: "But the book is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, which means that the LaTeX source is also available" by John_Doe
Parent article: Book review: Open Advice

> "It was therefore necessary to rewrite a paragraph of Big Brother's speech, in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened."

Good point. I should have mentioned, that I'm referring to writing technical books mainly. Now that I think about this more, freezing the book at some point might be a good thing to do too.

Thanks for your comment.

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"But the book is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license, which means that the LaTeX source is also available"

Posted Apr 15, 2012 2:03 UTC (Sun) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link]

Imho, updating is great - picking particular snapshots for "release" is also great (whether releases like in software, or marking and emphasizing certain versions like the German Wikipedia). I guess I can even see books where it might be sensible to prevent the marking of further releases. Deleting the changelog and VCS history (or set of diffs, or in the case of physical books - destroying the old versions) is not great, which is what was done in 1984.