I would tend to consider the notes to the manual as
documentation. Because the intent is to allow people
to expand/clarify on a documentation item (function,
etc.). 

If the comment is good and the function has a very
sparse documentation, it usually gets added into the
body of the manual (and the note removed). 
Bottomline, I would consider the notes to the manual
as having the same license as the manual itself, i.e.
GPL now (might change to OPL or similar IIRC).

Any other opinions?

--- Gabor Hojtsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was wondering under what license were covered
> the php code given
> > in the comments in the php documentation. If i get
> it right, the
> > copyright holders for these remain the original
> authors of the posts,
> > so i guess the question is to be asked to every
> author, but i just
> > would like to be sure of it ;) To be clear, my
> real question is
> > "is there any problem including this code inside a
> GPLed application" ?
> 
> Hm, I am posting this message to the PHP
> Documentation and the PHP
> User Note management mailing lists, they may be able
> to reply with
> something reasonable. We have no statement on the
> license of user
> notes anywhere, nor do we thought about it...
> 
> BTW subject is also modified to reflect the point
> more closely.
> 
> Goba [one [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> 
> 
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