[PD-ot] Packt Publishing royalties

[Julian Brooks]

Is this some kind of so-dry-I-don't-get-it humour 'cos they look well suss

J


On 19 November 2013 13:21, Ed Kelly <morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Wow!
>
> Is the Pd foundation up and running? I haven't followed the news (if there
> is any) regarding this.
>
> Perhaps this is within your scope Hans?
>
> Ed
>
>
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>
> Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data, now with dynamics!
> http://sharktracks.co.uk/
>
>
>   On Monday, 18 November 2013, 19:53, Antonio Roberts <
> antonio at hellocatfood.com> wrote:
>
> A representative of Packt Publishing recently put out a call to
> developers of open source software packages that are covered in their
> books to get in contact regarding royalties. They claim that they give
> money to the authors _and_ the project that the book is based upon.
> Text below:
>
> "I'm sorry that we haven't yet been able to make this clear. I will
> have this looked in to and revised for clarity.
> But, to confirm, authors receive royalties on sales of their books but
> we also give a royalty, where the book is based on an Open Source
> software or system, to the Project.
> I'm not at liberty to disclose the names of projects that have
> received this royalty, only that cumulatively we have given out a
> large sum of money to them.
> Please also treat this as a call out to any Open Source project that
> we have published on to get in touch with me should they not be
> receiving their royalties, we can only send them to you if we have
> your details :) "
>
> Full thread here:
> https://plus.google.com/113862800338869870683/posts/PDVcovR7Sir See
> last comment from Jonathan Titmus
>
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