Introduction to Programming using Java is free, but it is not in the public domain. As of Version 4.0, it is published under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. This license allows redistribution and modification under certain terms. For example, you can:

Post an unmodified copy of this textbook on your own Web site.

Give away or sell printed, unmodified copies of this book, as long as they meet the requirements of the license.

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While it is not actually required by the license, I do appreciate hearing from people who are using or distributing my work.

Professor David J. Eck

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Geneva, New York 14456, USA

Email: eck@hws.edu

WWW: http://math.hws.edu/eck/

July, 2002