On Jun 19, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Dérico Filho wrote:
> > Hi John! > >> Why would you need to distribute the docs when they're already freely >> available? > > "Free" -> chmod 0444??? Free to read, you mean, I guess. :-) Yes. There's a reason we don't allow everyone to post freely to an official CakePHP website. :) > Let's us take a hypotetic project (not so hypothetic, because I am > doing one with CakePHP). > I make a Project using CakePHP. MIT Licence allows me to change it > according to my needs. > > But my customer wants the documentation, oh NOT ONLY what I've done, > but also the CakePHP and the modifications... Well, what I problem I > got now, wouldn't you say? Mr. Woodworth told me the Documentation and > the Logo is Cake Foundation's intellectual property! Alas, I will have > to rewrite Cake's doc from the scratch, Oh nooo.... First, I can't > produce an altered version of the manual and distribute it. IANAL, but I don't see the issue with you writing whatever you want about CakePHP, as long as you tell people you're not official, and who is. Secondly, is there a problem with handing this client a link to the existing manual, or a PDF of it? > Second, I > can't also store the manual in the same CD of my project, I have to > instruct my customer to read or download it from the Cake website. ...which is probably more updated than a PDF on a CD... > OK, stopping the sarcams now. > > You see the point? Or even, I want to make my own version of commented > manual, I just cannot. I suppose you can, but you'd need to write your own content for it. But if everyone does that... > Or for instance, I live in Brazil, people here > simply don't talk english... I would like to provide them a version of > commented manual with Portuguese comments, but this also is not > allowed. We're working on that, as I've explained in another thread. If you like to help with that, let me know. > I cannot do ANYTHING with CakePHP manual because it's Cake Software > Foundation intellectual property. Why is that? So we can maintain a level of quality. Nothing is stopping you from making your own manual, as long as you write it yourself and don't make it appear as an official document. This is legal - that's why you see all these "missing manual" series on the bookshelves. I just don't think it's a good idea. > please! chmod 777 CAKEMANUAL. That'll never happen because I expect a level of quality and accuracy that a wiki-type approach simply cannot (and did not) provide. I also think that creating your own version of the manual really isn't as productive as contributing to the official effort. --- John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
