I have been prompted towards making the book "Shape Up!" available under an open license, and would like to do do under CC-by-SA. I have advised my co-author Seong-June Kim about this by email. So as not to create a doubtful legal situation for reusers, I'd like him to agree, naturally.

I have not heard back from Kim, using the email address I was given by one of the Cambridge players, which was current a year or so ago. If anyone here has more direct contact with Kim, I'd be grateful to hear more about his view. Of course he may not check his mail so regularly.

Despite that, it is now 2015, and I intend to follow through with my intention to declare "Shape Up!" released under CC-by-SA. That will probably not satisfy a lawyer, and may deter anyone in business to some extent. All the same, I have been in a comparable situation with another book, and there the Gordian knot was cut.

For further information, contact me (can be done via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Charles_Matthews: email me by creating a Wikipedia account and looking in the let sidebar, for example).

With some help, I have been able to speak to Seong-june Kim about the book. So I can confirm that "Shape Up!" is released under CC-by-SA.

Excellent news

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"Shape Up!" on the gobook app ! that would be a dream ! I would even pay 5$ to 10$ for that.

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THANK YOU, Charles, this is great news, a wonderful gift to the Go community worldwide!

Two questions:

- Are you going to edit the book (frontispice? front matter? title page?) to reflect this fact?

- Which source do you recommend to obtain the complete book?

• The Badukworld version only seems to offer 12 chapters and one problem set (maybe I just overlooked?), while …

• the overview on GoBase.org shows 15 chapters, three problem sets, plus “Index of shapes”, “Index of terms”, “List of proverbs” (it’s divided into five parts, the fifth part, “Theory”, includes chapters 13–15). These files appear to be available only to GoBase members.

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Gratefully, Tom

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Thank you for making it easier for people to get a legal copy of your helpful book! Shape Up is a great contribution to the English go literature.

Not intending to edit it. For intellectual property mavens, CC-by-SA licensing does not affect the underlying copyright.



I have actually been contacted by someone who is interested in posting the PDFs; I'll update this thread if and when that hosting is sorted out. Also, this business was prompted by a go teacher who is interested in producing a derived work.

There is a PDF copy of the whole book now at

http://cdn.online-go.com/shape_up.pdf

Warning: Many animoticons here. Because …

Wonderful! Thanks again, Charles, for this great gift

And kudos to Akita for editing and hosting it on OGS

It is very nice to see good people cooperating for the best of the Go community.

Cordially, Tom

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Hi Charles,

Is it ok if I try to convert it to the gobook format ? (just converting, no distribution or what ever...)

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Hello oca,


I’m not Charles, but the CC SA license on the second page says this:


The complete license text is linked there, too, and is here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode


So, it seems that you may even redistribute it as a gobooks file.

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For the record, presuming the conversion goes well, we'd be happy to host the resulting gobook file too

What Bonobo said. The idea of the license is that people are able to produce their own derived works. It is nice to hear about them, for example here, but you don't need any permissions.

Thanks Charles, So will start the conversion.

anoek, thanks for your proposition , I think that wuill be great if both the pdf and the gobook will be at the same place !

I will start a topic for that purpose and maybe it may also be useful to people who want to learn the gobook format.

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Dedicated thread on conversion to gobook format started here : viewtopic.php?f=17&t=11402

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From https://forums.online-go.com/t/shape-up ... date/24038:
—> https://cdn.online-go.com/shape_up_v1.2.pdf

Looks a LOT better now IMO.

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