Hello,
This e-mail is a request for special permission to use some of the
content from PHP.net on another website, specifically a website for a
new, MIT licensed, PHP library.
Rationale
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I have written a small PHP library containing data structures which are
designed to be easily interchangeable with the official ones provided by
the SPL.
Documentation is always important for software libraries but in this
case it is also desirable to achieve as much symmetry as possible
between my library's documentation and the official documentation for
the SPL data structures (PHP.net). In this way users of both sets of
data structures can more easily switch between the two, reinforcing in
their minds that the APIs are, for the most part, compatible.
To this end I have produced my documentation in the DocBook superset
format used by the PHP project's PhD program. (In fact, I wrote a
collection of scripts to build the PhD source from a set of XML files
which strictly define the API. There's a small chance it may be of use
to extension writers one day.)
It has since come to my attention that the 'php' output from PhD is not
a complete website and cannot function without files from PHP.net. Also,
whilst PhD and its output is free, the same is not true for those
PHP.net files.
My intentions
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It is my intention to take the content from PHP.net and strip it down to
a small subset capable of making the PhD generated manual usable. This
would include the search and comment functionality as well as some of
the CSS files.
I would then swap out the logo for my own, change some of the colours,
notably the blue navigation bar (probably to green), and include a
notice at the bottom of the page stating that the project is NOT
officially endorsed by the PHP project.
The copyright notice at the bottom could be changed to read something
like:
Copyright © 2015 Daniel Martin, 2001-2015 The PHP Group
The copyright page itself could state that the website files, besides
the manual, are copyright The PHP Group with all rights reserved.
I understand that the content of PHP.net is copyrighted with all rights
reserved and so ask for special license (to modify and distribute
modified versions) to be granted in this case. Is this something you
would consider? Thanks in advance for your time.
Best wishes,
Daniel Martin.
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