Hi, Cédrick,

You can print anything with Lulu.  Just make it a private project and  
print copies for yourself.

I have done this already for another book that I cannot yet release  
publicly.

The real problem will be with the PDFs, as Lulu requites that all  
fonts be embedded. You may have to do some work to substitute non- 
embedded fonts.

I suggest you just go ahead and try it.  As long as you are not  
selling the books publicly there is no copyright issue, I think.

-on

On Apr 8, 2008, at 14:59, cdrick wrote:
> Is it possible to use lulu.com or equivalent to print free books
> available in Stephane's site
> (http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/).
>
> I see two limits (especially the first one):
>
> - licence and copyright issues - These books are not really free as
> SBE for instance,
> - I don't know if scanned pages will look nice...
>
> Thanks
>
> Cédrick
>
> ps:  I wouldn't mind paying an extra amount for original authors...
>
> 2008/4/8, Victor Rodriguez <victor.palique at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:47 AM, cdrick <cdrick65 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does someone know if there are online service to print it as a book
>>> (as lulu.com for squeak by example). I imagine, this is not possible
>>> to open the same kind of account as SBE because of ACM copyright. So
>>> if someone know an equivalent service for one book / one pdf, I'm
>>> interested.
>>
>>
>> Back in 2006 I thought about the same thing: using lulu.com to print
>> some of the books kindly made available by Prof. Ducasse.  I asked
>> lulu.com and the following excerpt summarizes the response:
>>
>> "... The Lulu membership agreement runs on trust, mostly; and this
>> means that if you say you have the rights ( in the ownership sense ),
>> and / or the right  ( in a moral sense ) to publish this work, then  
>> we
>> believe you...."
>>
>> My idea was to "privately publish" a book and just order one copy for
>> myself.  At the end, I did not actually print anything, and lulu.com
>> might have changed their policy since, so better ask again (and  
>> please
>> report back!).
>>
>> Saludos,
>>
>>
>> Victor Rodriguez.
>>
>>
>>> Last point, will this book become available for free one day (as  
>>> there
>>> is nearly no possibility to buy it) ?
>>>
>>> Cédrick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>