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The Testing Goat

Obey the Testing Goat!

TDD for the Web, with Python, Selenium, Django, JavaScript and pals...

Day against DRM and this book's copyright

Fri 03 May 2013
By Harry

Hooray for O'Reilly, who are giving away ebooks half-price in celebration of the FSF's "Day against DRM"!

Save 50% on all Ebooks and Videos to celebrate Day Against DRM

When I was first speaking to publishers about this book, I was a bit nervous. I'm very intersed in digital rights and copyright reform, and in fact I'm a reasonably active member of Pirate Party UK (or I was until this little project sucked up all my spare time!)... Could I find a publishing deal that would be compatible with my views? One of my colleagues in the German Pirate Party came in for a lot of criticism when she wrote a book and discovered her publisher sending out DMCA notices to filesharing sites...

I support a manifesto that asks for a 10-year limit on copyright, and for all non-commercial filesharing to be legal. Could I find a publishing deal that was at all consistent with that? The first publisher I spoke to was having none of it...

That's why I was so glad when O'Reilly said they had absolutely no problem with me distributing the book under a CC license... After a bit of haggling, they even agree to a clause in the contract that would say that the book would revert to a CC-0 Public Domain license after 10 years. Even if you think the policy of 10 years is too short for many domains, it's certainly enough for commercial exploitation of a technical book.

So, hooray for my beloved publisher, hooray for Creative Commons, and hooray for the FSF!

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Reviews & Testimonials

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Resources

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Old TDD / Django Tutorial

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Save the Testing Goat Campaign

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