FW: R. H. Rand's permission: german translation of your "introduction to maxima"[Scanned]
Subject: FW: R. H. Rand's permission: german translation of your "introduction to maxima"[Scanned]
From: Nicolas Neuss
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:11:41 +0100
"Gloeckner, Robert" <RGloeckner at dki.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
> 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.
Why take a risk? I have good experience with asking the Springer-Verlag
about permission for putting versions of my articles on my homepage or
using my articles also in other contexts. I assume that they will only
require that you acknowledge the original source.
Yours, Nicolas.