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Third edition: relicense to CC-BY-SA 4.0 International

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My contract with O'Reilly said:

> After a period of 12 months has passed from the publication date of
> the first U.S. hard copy edition of the Work, you reserve the right to
> make copies of the Work available under Creative Commons Attribution-
> ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA).

The U.S. hard copy edition was released 2023-12-12, which is now over 12
months in the past, so I'm exercising my right.
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"Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain" (2nd Edition) by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, which is tagged "second_edition_print3" is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.
"Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain" (3rd Edition) by Andreas M. Antonopoulos & David Harding, which is tagged "third_edition_print1" is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial, No-Derivative (CC-BY-NC-ND) license. After one year from the date of publication we intend to release the third edition under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license.
"Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain" (3rd Edition) by Andreas M. Antonopoulos & David Harding, which is tagged "third_edition_print1" is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ .
These "Free Culture" licenses were approved by the publisher O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com). O'Reilly Media is not just the world's best publisher of technical books but also a strong supporter of an open culture and the sharing of knowledge.
Thank you O'Reilly!
Thank you O'Reilly!

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_Please note that some of the links in each chapter do not work when reading the book on Github. This is because those links are intended for the print and ebook editions of the book and only work when all the chapters are rendered together. Unfortunatelly, Github does not have the ability to render the complete book at once._
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## Where is the PDF?
**The current edition is not available as a PDF, deliberately**. Why? Because the publisher (O'Reilly Media) is a for-profit publisher who puts considerable resources behind producing, editing and distributing this book. The third edition of "Mastering Bitcoin" is available under a CC-BY-NC-ND license, not a CC-BY-SA license. The book will eventually (within a year of publication) be released under a CC-BY-SA license, at which point PDF copies and translations will be allowed (a PDF is a "derivative" product, which is what the "ND-NoDerivatives" part of the license prohibits).
@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ _Please note that some of the links in each chapter do not work when reading the
Making PDF copies violates the license and interferes with the publisher's and the authors' ability to earn from their work. Furthermore, if you make it so the publisher can't recoup their investment, they may delay the release into CC-BY-SA. A beautifully rendered PDF or epub version of this book is offered for sale by the publisher. Convenient packaging is the for-profit product, whereas the version available here is slightly less convenient but entirely free for personal and non-commercial use. If you want convenience and nice packaging, buy the book!
Please don't create or distribute PDFs until the license is changed to CC-BY-SA. It is rare for a publisher to even agree to a CC-BY-NC-ND license. Don't make it harder for free culture by violating even that, already generous, license.
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# Mastering Bitcoin Third Edition
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The tag [third_edition_print_1](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/third_edition_print1) corresponds to the first print of the third edition of Mastering Bitcoin as published in paperback and ebook by O'Reilly Media in December 2023.
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