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andrewduckerLast year Cory Doctorow gave away his book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. You could also buy it in the shops, and the license was "read it, pass it on, can't change it."
Today, a week after giving away his second book in the same way, he changed the license on the first one - you can now change it, so long as you allow others to make derivative versions of your derivative version.
As he says:
Oh for more writers to be so bold.
Today, a week after giving away his second book in the same way, he changed the license on the first one - you can now change it, so long as you allow others to make derivative versions of your derivative version.
As he says:
as of today, you have my blessing to create derivative works from my first book. You can make movies, audiobooks, translations, fan-fiction, slash fiction (God help us), furry slash fiction, poetry, translations, t-shirts, you name it, with two provisos: that one, you have to allow everyone else to rip, mix and burn your creations in the same way you're hacking mine; and on the other hand, you've got to do it noncommercially.
Oh for more writers to be so bold.
