[Axiom-developer] Re: Scanned image of book

[Mike Dewar]

Tim,

We own the copyright but there is also a question of Springer's rights
to the printed version.  I'm no lawyer but it appears that the book is
still in print in the US so you could be treading on thin ice by
publishing a scanned version on the web.  My advice would be not to do
it.

In any case it seems crazy to go down this route when you could just
make a pdf from the (more up-to-date than published) TeX sources that
you have.  In principle all that you need to do is go to the
development/src/doc/htex directory and run `latex book', however the
version of LaTeX that you really need is a 12 year old IBM installation
so you will have some font and style file issues I'm afraid. There are
some fonts in the doc/dvips directory which may help.

Cheers, Mike.


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:44:56PM -0400, Tim Daly wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> Does NAG own the copyright to the Axiom book?
> I know the words were released under the Modified BSD.
> Bill Page has offered to upload a scanned image of the book
> for use while the new one is being written.
> Will NAG allow that?
> 
> Tim
> address@hidden
> 
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