Hacker News Reader

Noted. Any suggestions on a good license to use for this document to allow non-commercial derivative works?

You're looking for this: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Although, there is one that prevents modification as well if that's what you're looking for.

Thanks! Will update the document tomorrow to use that in case no one makes a better suggestion.

Thanks for using cc-by-nc.

No, that license allows remixing and adapting the work. That would let people butcher the book and leave broken copies that frustrate students.

Zed, that's what he wanted. As I suggested there are alternatives to prevent someone from changing even one word.

Yup. While it is true that allowing others to modify my work will probably bite me in the ass in the future, there are also some arguments for allowing this.

For one, the book is targeted to Filipino students - teachers may want to modify the names/scenarios to better suit their country. Sure, gives them a low-hanging trolling fruit (e.g. putting vulgar words in the i18n section), but I really don't have the time to review these forks.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com