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On 06/21/2015 03:52 PM, C.D. Reimer wrote:
> The copyright applies to the book ("Do not redistribute, mirror, or copy 
> this *online book*.") and any derivative work is based on the book. 
> Using the video output from the BASIC games in the book could fall 
> underneath the fair use provision, which allows me to use a small 
> portion of the book without infringing on the copyright. I'm not 
> publishing a book. I just want to put my code on a website as an 
> educational example of what I did to convert a spaghetti language into a 
> modern scripting language.

Completely agree. Either post code with your own copyright and pick any
license (you can change it later), such as BSD, or just release it as
public domain.  I think your work could really be a good thing for
teaching purposes.