I got it to work. Thank you. This will make it a lot easier now to post conversions without having to post the converted file.
Heh, we may have to have another category in the Book Uploads area.
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Heh, we may have to have another category in the Book Uploads area.
That is a good idea.
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Ah I see, well lets see if Tor starts beating on your door in the middle of the night.
I decided to you know just go ahead and ask them. One Laurence Hewitt first says no, but I ask:
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Just to clarify -- you are asking me not to distribute the derivative work even in the form which requires the recipient of the derived work already have a copy of the original?
Which to clarify one step further, what I'm actually wishing to distribute is instructions for transforming the original version of the e-book into my modified version. So not directly distributing either the original or the derived version, but the means to transform the original into the derived version.
And he responds:
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Sorry, I utterly misunderstood your message. I've gotten into the bad habit of merely skimming my e-mail rather than actually reading it. Yes, of course you can distribute.
So Tor at least is fine with this. Hooray! :-)
Nice! I don't see any issue. Because as you said without the source the diff file is useless. What if you've downloaded the PDF of
Mistborn then you can get my LRF conversion over at
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...356#post156356That's great. Maybe we should organize some infrastructure that allows us to generate the diff for a particular ebook version purchased from say, so and so URL and de-DRMed using so and so tool. The tool for applying the diff should check the md5sum of the source file to make sure it doesn't mess it up.
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Nice! I don't see any issue. Because as you said without the source the diff file is useless. What if you've downloaded the PDF of
Mistborn then you can get my LRF conversion over at
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...356#post156356Well, people here have argued that format shifting were you did not do the work yourself was illegal/immoral or whatever so I a counting on them to repeat there arguments here and strongly object to this practise.
Ah, but this is, effectively, just a tool to do the format shifting yourself.
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Ah, but this is, effectively, just a tool to do the format shifting yourself.
And then we can make versions of MobileRead books that replaces emdash with - and curly quotes with straight quotes for people that prefer that...
That's a good idea.
