Re: Good book on Git

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:53:02 -0500 Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
wrote:
>   > http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
> 
>   > and is creative commons licensed.
> 
> Beware of saying things are "creative commons licensed" as if that
> were significant.  There are six Creative Commons licenses.  Two are
> free, four are not.  See
> stallman.org/articles/online-education.html.
> 
> Which Creative Commons license does that manual use?
> 

It isn't "free" (it is the non non-commercial variant, and to be
free-as-in-freedom it would need to allow copying for commercial use)
but I was not suggesting this for incorporation into software (which
would not be possible), only that it is a useful reference for people
learning Git. The project has a lot of people who want to learn Git
in a hurry, and it isn't a bad book for that purpose.

BTW, it is more of a textbook than a manual. The Git manuals that
come with Git itself are of course fully free, but they are not always
the easiest introduction.

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Perry E. Metzger                address@hidden