tjmonk15 wrote:
It seems to contain the old tutorial in a ZIP, so it is important information. Looking at the ZIP contents, this tutorial looks brief, so whatever can be learned from there should be easier to grasp. That's good too.
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James Molloy tutorial gone (glad I have good memory for things like this about rare valuable material (I searched
jamesm osdev license "to happen"), I remembered reading that anyone can use it in any way except for diffamation, which is not
"going to happen").
It is always painful when perfectly good information disappears from the web and the cases where clearly won't be anything better to replace it from the same author (and keep the past material archived and available). There is simply not a good situation but just the result of technical problems at best, and at worst (
not in this case of course, as is obvious) a good amount of egoism and/or loss of interest in giving away that information. It leaves a practical void that makes a lot of people happy for whatever reason, but that is a strike for people trying to learn the very basics.
JamesM wrote:
To alleviate any problems and to inform everyone:
Many people have contacted me regarding copying, modifying and redistributing the tutorial series on my site. As you're aware there is no explicit license or disclaimer on the site.
As I've said to everyone, I'll say here.
I hereby revoke all rights to (but not ownership of) the code and text contained at http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html and related subdirectories. The contents of said subdirectories are released with no restrictions - be that to modification or redistribution.
This comes with the following request (and I do stress
request), that redistributed or modified code maintains a link to the site from which it came - for example the "From JamesM's tutorials" comment header available in all files.
I have no intention of persuing any sort of copyright or licence related claim whatsoever, with the sole exception of if someone somehow uses those tutorials as something libellous against me. Which isn't going to happen, so for all intents and purposes
go ahead, I honestly couldn't care less and although they're poorly written, I'm glad they've helped you.EDIT: Shameless as it is, it's Christmas. I'm working still on rewriting those tutorials, and if they've helped you or you feel like it, why not buy me a beer via paypal?
[email protected].
Cheers,
James