The Cathedral & the Bazaar, The E-book.
This is to my knowledge the only free ePub of Eric S. Raymond's iconic essay The Cathedral & the Bazaar. This e-book should qualify as a "minor change" under the license, though I have shifted the notes into each chapter and added a full list of the lessons at the end.
Support Eric S. Raymond via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/esr
My setup for generating an ePub merely uses Python, epubcheck and GNU Bash.
A new ePub file can be made by using the provided CreateE-book.py
via installing Python 3 and then running the script on IDLE, Thonny or the python3 CreateE-book.py
command on GNU Bash (macOS and GNU/Linux Terminal). The script however does not work with Python 2 and I have no plans to backport.
XHTML, CSS and the metadata.json
files can be edited using a text editor such as Atom and Notepad++.
The toc.ncx
and content.opf
are generated by the CreateE-book.py
and shouldn't be edited as they would be overwritten.
If you need to check the e-book yourself run java -jar epubcheck.jar CathedralBazaar.epub
from on the GNU Bash terminal (macOS and GNU/Linux) after moving to the folder that the ePub file is placed in.
I personally combine the commands by running python3 CreateE-book.py && java -jar epubcheck.jar CathedralBazaar.epub
to streamline things.
Book text content is licensed under the Open Publication License 2.0.
Book image content are licensed under CC0 and CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Book code such as the .xhtml, .css and .xml files are licensed under the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).
The CreateE-book.py
script designed to be part of my https://github.com/inferno986return/ebookbuild project and is currently licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.
The IDPF's epubcheck-4.0.2
tool is licensed under Apache License 2.0, Mozilla Public License and BSD 3-clause License.