Wikibooks is a side project of wikipedia that aims to provide free textbooks. There's already some good programming textbooks in development. Anyway, are the Nehe tutorials released under any GPL-style license? What's the copyright status on them?

It is a priori not OK to republish Nehe's tutorials. You should check directly with him and get explicit permission.

Why not just link to the tutorials?

Hi Waxmop :)

Email Jeff about your question as he doesnt come to the forum too often these days, but I really don't think he will want you using them. He sells a CD with all his tutorials so if they were out there in a textbook for "free" what would be the point of selling a cd - know what I mean? but I can not speech for him. (just my opinion)

Quote: Original post by NeHe_Lover
Hi Waxmop :)

Email Jeff about your question as he doesnt come to the forum too often these days, but I really don't think he will want you using them. He sells a CD with all his tutorials so if they were out there in a textbook for "free" what would be the point of selling a cd - know what I mean? but I can not speech for him. (just my opinion)

But then again, all the tutorials are available on the site for free as well. AFAIK the cd sale is primarily to give people something back for their donations (I think I remember he wrote something about this a while back).

your totally right frostburn, you can get the tutorials "off this site" and the money earned from the cd goes back "to this site" all I am saying is Jeff wants people to come to "this site" for the tutorials. If people could just get his tutorials anywhere what would be the point of him spending so much time on making this webpage what it is. The tutorials are under copyright for a reason I would think. BUT again this is my opinion:)


Like I said Waxmop email Jeff (NeHe) nehe@connect.ab.ca

I cannot find a good reason for those lessons to go on another web site. There's no point in replicating pages (except when you face bandwidth problems) ; the Internet is *already* a huge mess...

Hmm anyway the wiki idea is a good one : would it be possible to have a wiki section somewhere on NeHe's page where the community could create new tutorials ? The page would grow without taking too much of Jeff's time and mature tuts could finally make it into the tuts section...

NeHe_Lover, of course I didn't mean to imply that because they're free it would be ok to publish the articles other places without asking Jeff. I was simply pointing out that the cd-sales argument was a poor one. :)
Other reasons to keep the tutorials on the site are ads, competitions, news, feedback, having a community etc.

rodzilla, I don't think it'd be easy to convert NeHe to a wiki or to integrate a wiki into NeHe. A possibly better idea would be to create another site dedicated to letting people write tutorials, improve on them and asking and answering questions in a less "linear" way than a forum.