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   7   <title>About this edition</title>
   8
   9   <para>
  10 This edition of <citetitle>Free Culture</citetitle> is the result of
  11 three years of volunteer work.  The idea came from a discussion I had
  12 around ten years ago with a friend about the copyright debate in
  13 Norway, and how rarely the negative sides of stronger copyright
  14 regulation are mentioned in public.  The summer of 2012 I finally had
  15 a look again at the idea and decided to publish a Norwegian Bokmål
  16 edition of <citetitle>Free Culture</citetitle>, translated and
  17 formatted by volunteers, as it describes the problem area very well.
  18 This new English edition is a by-product of this translation project.
  19   </para>
  20
  21   <para>
  22 Thanks to the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project, I already had
  23 experience translating Docbook documents, and it seemed like a good
  24 format for this book too.  I found a Docbook formatted version of the
  25 book created by Hans Schou, and after some work I was able to
  26 transform it to into a book.  This was the start of the translation
  27 project.  I added a way to create both English and Bokmål versions,
  28 and called for volunteers to help me with the translation.
  29   </para>
  30
  31   <para>
  32 Several people joined, and the following even helped with the English
  33 version.  Ralph Amissah and his SiSu version provided index entries.
  34 Morten Sickel and Alexander Alemayhu helped with the figures,
  35 redrawing some of the bitmaps as vector images.  Håkon Wium Lie helped
  36 me track down a good replacement font without usage restrictions
  37 instead of the one in the original edition.  The typesetting is done
  38 using dblatex, which was selected over the alternatives thanks to the
  39 invaluable and quick help from Benoît Guillon and Andreas Hoenen.
  40 Thomas Gramstad donated ISBN numbers needed for distribution to book
  41 stores.  Marc Jeanmougin from the inkscape community helped me
  42 replicate the original front cover.
  43   </para>
  44
  45   <para>
  46 The support from Lawrence Lessig has been valuable, and I am very glad
  47 for his prompt and positive response.  I am impressed he still had the
  48 original screen shots, more than eleven years after the book was
  49 published for the first time.
  50   </para>
  51
  52   <para>
  53 I am very grateful to Mari and the rest of my family for their
  54 patience with me in this project.
  55   </para>
  56
  57   <para>
  58 &ndash; Petter Reinholdtsen, Oslo 2015-10-15
  59   </para>
  60
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