FW: R. H. Rand's permission: german translation of your "introduction to maxima"[Scanned]

Hello,

El vie, 13-01-2006 a las 17:45 +0100, Gloeckner, Robert escribi??:
> Hello Robert,
> 
> Robert Dodier wrote on 20060113 05:34 pm:
> > Unfortunately I don't think the Maxima project is in a strong 
> > position here. It is almost certain that the authors (Rand 
> > and Armbruster) assigned the copyright to Springer-Verlag. If 
> > so, derivative works are under the control of 
> > Springer-Verlag. (A look at the title page of the book would 
> > show who has the copyright, but the nearest university 
> > library doesn't have the book.)
> The book is from 1987 ... I do not think they care.
> 
> 
> > I'm not sure what to do at this point. We could try to
> > contact Springer-Verlag; I don't know what approach is
> > likely to yield an agreement. We could leave it be and
> > keep the document, or we could remove it.
> (1) I will keep it on my page.
> (2) I will rewrite it a little bit, so that there is no relation
> between my text and R. Rands.
> 

I'd suggest some ideas:

* You can change some examples here and there.

* You can add some new sections: equations, systems of equations,
complex numbers, limits, graphics, set operations, lists manipulation or
whatever you want. You can get inspired looking at this document:
http://www.telefonica.net/web2/biomates/maxima/max.pdf
You don't have to understand much Spanish to get what it is talking
about. The LaTex source is here:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/maxima/maxima/doc/tutorial/es/
You can copy and paste all the examples you wish; the author is a good
friend of mine and I know he won't call the lawyer.

* At the end of this document there is a list of Maxima functions, you
can add some of them to Rand's list.

Well, that would be enough.... I suppose.

Best wishes.

-- 
Mario Rodriguez Riotorto
www.biomates.net