Re: Publishing Postgres Manual as a book

2023年3月23日(木) 12:34 Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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> 2023年3月23日(木) 12:23 Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>:
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> > > On 23/03/2023 02:35 CET Siddharth Jain <siddhsql(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The Postgres Manual is available online as a PDF but I think having it in a
> > > book form could be useful to some.
> > >
> > > Is it legal for me to publish the manual as a book?
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> > IANAL, but I'd say yes as long as you don't take a fee. The legal notice of
> > the documentation grants distribution of the documentation "for any purpose,
> > without fee".
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> Also not a lawyer, but the full sentence is:
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> > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
> > documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement is
> > hereby granted
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> which in my non-lawyerly interpretation means anyone copying, modifying and
> distributing the documentation may do so without paying a fee. A distributor
> could charge what they like. AFAIR the documentation has previously been
> published in book form

e.g.: https://www.amazon.com/PostgreSQL-9-0-Official-Documentation-Language/dp/1596822465

> though as it runs to about 3,000 A4 pages now, the logistics are non-trivial.

The PostgreSQL 15 A4 PDF has 2854 pages.

Regards

Ian Barwick