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Licensing of the Bourne Shell Scripting Tutorial

Why don't I release it as GPL, GFDL or Creative Commons? I just want to be the sole distributor, so that:

  • I know how many readers it gets
  • People know to contact me with comments, amendments, etc
  • Nobody else takes the credit for my work
  • There is only One True Version of the tutorial, without any confusing forks

You are still free to make copies for personal use - whether that's for reading offline, or whatever. I just request that you not redistribute it, via the web, print, or any other medium.

If you have a particular reason to want to do something else, please just contact me and I'm sure we'll be able to sort something out; maybe you can just link back to this site.

My new 564-page book, Shell Scripting, published by Wiley, is on sale now. Please click "Like" on the left if you are on Facebook, or just click here to get the book.
Steve's Bourne / Bash shell scripting tutorial
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